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"Compassionate Release" has little effect on early release of sick and dying priosoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

January 30, 2010 Law Has Little Effect on Early Release for Inmates By CARA BUCKLEY NY Times COXSACKIE, N.Y. ? With his swollen legs and a throaty rasp that whistles like a kettle through his broken teeth, Eddie Jones is an unlikely man to make history. He is 89 and dying, a former loan shark who, at 69, shot another man dead on a Harlem street in what he claimed was self-defense. Now he is serving a sentence of 25 years to life in a prison hospital bed in this upstate town, riddled with heart disease and probably cancer, though his doctors are not certain about the cancer because Mr. Jones has refused most every medical test. Mr. Jones?s original parole date was in 2015, but he stands to go free in the coming weeks under a new state law that makes chronically as well as terminally ill inmates eligible for early release...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 30, 2010 (boomark / email).