User:Jessamyncp/Compassionate release

Compassionate release is a legal system that grants inmates early release from prison sentences on special grounds such as terminal illness or a child in the community with an urgent need for his or her incarcerated guardian. Compassionate release procedures, also known as medical release, can be legally mandated or can be conducted internally by the correctional system. Unlike parole, compassionate release is not based on a prisoner's behavior or sentencing.

In 2009, Corrections systems with compassionate release procedures included the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons (often known as the BOP), California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), and others.

United States Federal Bureau of Prisons
In the BOP, inmates file a petition for Compassionate release with the Warden. The inmate may only initiate a request "when there are particularly extraordinary or compelling circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen by the court at the time of sentencing."