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WASHINGTON – An elderly woman who was recently arrested after she missed phone calls from officials while attending a computer class – a possible violation of her home detention – is headed back home following a federal judge s decision to grant her request for compassionate release.
In a four-page ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Deborah C. Chasanow said it would do little to force Gwen Levi – a 76-year-old who s in remission from lung cancer and whom the Justice Department had deemed nonviolent – to serve the entirety of her sentence. During her incarceration, she took many courses, worked, and completed drug education, Chasanow wrote, noting Levi s age, medical conditions and lack of major disciplinary problems.
Gwen Levi, face of federal home confinement cohort at risk of prison return, granted compassionate release
In prior posts (some linked below), I have discussed the Office of Legal Counsel memo which interprets federal law to require that certain persons transferred to home confinement pursuant to the CARES Act be returned to federal prison when the pandemic ends. In this recent post, I noted one person at risk of serving many more years in prison after success on home confinement, Gwen Levi, who was getting particular attention because she had already been re-incarcerated on the basis of a seemingly minor technical violation.
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