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Text of Recommendation
The BOP should monitor changes to federal and DOJ compassionate release requirements and guidelines, including the USSG, and consider making corresponding changes to its Compassionate Release Program Statement. For example, in view of provisions in the 2023 sentencing guidelines, we further recommend that the BOP assess whether it should revise its Compassionate Release Program Statement to state that the BOP should consider a reduction in sentence when the defendant is suffering from a medical condition that requires long-term or specialized medical care that is not being provided and without which the defendant is at risk of serious deterioration in health or death.
Recommendation Number
4
Date Issued
Status
Resolved
Component
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Report
Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Conditions of Confinement and Medical Treatment of Frederick Mervin Bardell and Related Representations to the Court, Upon Referral by Senior U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr.