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  2. Compassionate release - Wikipedia

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    Applications for early release on compassionate grounds are allowed in England and Wales for prisoners serving determinate or indeterminate sentences. [34] Three general principles are applied during the decision-making process: the safety of the public, new information not available to the court, and whether there was a specific purpose for ...

  3. Thousands of federal inmates still await early release under ...

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    Thousands of nonviolent federal prisoners eligible for early release under a promising Trump-era law remain locked up nearly four years later due to inadequate implementation, prisoner advocacy ...

  4. Year in Review (No. 9) Legislation allows early release of ...

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    In late January, 400 inmates monitored by the Alabama Department of Pardons and Paroles became early-release beneficiaries after the state implemented a piece of 2015 legislation that, in a step ...

  5. Early release scheme ‘giving domestic abuse victims ... - AOL

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    Victims of domestic abuse are having “sleepless nights” ahead of the Government’s introduction of the temporary early release scheme in prisons, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner has said.

  6. Parole - Wikipedia

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    Parole, also known as provisional release, supervised release, or being on paper, is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or else they may be rearrested and returned to prison.

  7. United States federal probation and supervised release

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    The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for imprisonment, [1] or in addition to home detention, [2] while the latter is imposed in addition to imprisonment.

  8. Prisoners released early but some victims 'not warned' - AOL

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    More than 1,700 prisoners have been released early in England and Wales as part of a government scheme to ease overcrowding in prisons.

  9. First Step Act - Wikipedia

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    Scope of Impact: Within the first year of enactment, more than 3,000 federal prisoners were released based on changes to the good-time credits calculation formula under the First Step Act, and more than 2,000 inmates benefited from sentence reductions from the retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.