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Mary Price

General Counsel

Families Against Mandatory Minimums

Mary Price is General Counsel of Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM). She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates for reform of federal sentencing and corrections law and policy before Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice.

Blog Posts

How the Bureau of Prisons locked down “compassionate release.”

April 18, 2017
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Criminal Justice

I learned about Mr. Raymond the way I so often hear about such cases — from a family member in a phone call.[1] By “such cases” I mean elderly, sick, even dying federal prisoners trying to secure early release using the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) compassionate release program. The call from Mr. Raymond’s daughter was like hundreds I have taken over the years from family members: she was frustrated, frightened, and completely in the dark about the status of her father’s application for release. At 74 years old, Mr. Raymond had served more than 15 years of his 20-year sentence, and Corrections