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Artwork by Kevin Pyle showing the complicated maze of steps required for incarcerated people to apply for compassionate release resulting in only 6% of applications being approved, while the other 94% applicants are left to die in prison. Analysis based on federal Bureau of Prisons data, no state data available.

Data Source: Based on analysis of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. State data is not available. (Graph: Kevin Pyle, 2020)

This graph originally appeared in Compassionate release was never designed to release large numbers of people.

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