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    Seriously Ill Federal Prisoners Freed As Compassionate Release Law Takes Effect

    Judges are beginning to limit the sentences of cancer sufferers and other badly ailing prisoners after a law passed last year by Congress.
    by Carrie Johnson Mar 15, 2019 2 minutes

    Last October, a federal prisoner named Richard Evans noticed a suspicious mass in his neck. He reported the condition to prison officials in Louisiana. Nothing happened.

    Evans, 74, is a former doctor who was convicted of conspiracy, fraud and distributing oxycodone and hydrocodone. He received a five-year sentence.

    On Thursday afternoon, about 22 months into his prison term, Evans

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