Balancing Punishment and Compassion for Seriously Ill Prisoners
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 19, 2011
ANNOTATION: Anyone involved with the compassionate release process needs to read this article. The “medical eligibility criteria of many compassionate-release guidelines—which often assume a definitive prognosis—are clinically flawed, and procedural barriers may further limit their rational application” (p. 122). The authors explain how these flaws can be mended. Sections of this article include: the history and rationale of compassionate release; the compassionate release process; medical-related flaws in compassionate release programs; addressing medical-related flaws in eligibility guidelines; proposed categorization scheme for assessing medical eligibility for compassionate release; palliative medicine and the criminal justice system; and conclusion.
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