“A bipartisan group of senators are calling on federal prison officials to follow through on recommendations to expand the use of compassionate release.
“In a letter Thursday, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and 11 other senators asked acting Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Thomas Kane and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to take a serious look at a prison bureau program that allows federally incarcerated people to appeal for early release if they present certain ‘extraordinary and compelling’ reasons.”