For humanitarian and economic reasons, the federal Bureau of Prisons should grant more early releases to incapacitated and terminally ill prisoners, two advocacy groups say in a report depicting current policies as sometimes "cruel as well as senseless." The report, issued Friday by Human Rights Watch and Families Against Mandatory Minimums,
Federal Prisons Urged To Grant More Early Releases
This Monday, July 13, 2009 file photo shows the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C. Nearly 1,000 inmates with serious medical and mental health problems are kept at the Federal Medical Center in the Butner complex. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) For humanitarian and economic reasons, the federal Bureau of Prisons should grant more early releases […]