{"id":38072,"date":"2014-01-06T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=38072"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:08","slug":"lynne-stewart-freed-from-prison-granted-compassionate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/01\/lynne-stewart-freed-from-prison-granted-compassionate-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynne Stewart Freed from Prison, Granted “Compassionate Release”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lynne Stewart has been released from prison and will come to New York City to live with her son.\"lynne-stewart\"<\/a> <\/i><\/p>\n

31 Dec 2013<\/i> – <\/b>Earlier today, federal Judge John Koeltl ordered the “compassionate release” of Lynne Stewart. He wrote that “Stewart\u2019s “terminal medical condition and very limited life expectancy constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons that warrant the requested reduction [of her sentence.]… It is further ordered that the defendant shall be released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as soon as her medical condition permits, the release plan is implemented and travel arrangements can be made.”<\/b><\/p>\n

The Bureau of Prisons has submitted a request to the judge in Lynne Stewart\u2019s case, asking him to grant “compassionate release” to 74-year-old jailed civil rights attorney who is dying from stage IV breast cancer. Scroll down to read the order.<\/i><\/p>\n

“This morning, the government, meaning the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of the Bureau of Prisons, filed a motion before Federal Judge John Koeltl, requesting that Lynne Stewart be re-sentenced to time served,” said Bob Boyle, one of Stewart\u2019s lawyers. “This means she would be eligible \u2014 if he signs the order \u2014 for immediate release. There is every indication that will sign the order, since he said so on the record, when we made the motion back in July to have her be released.”<\/p>\n

Boyle says he fully expects Stewart to be released in the next few days, and return to New York City where she will live with her son. He says she and her family have been told the news and are extremely relieved and grateful.<\/p>\n

Below you can listen to Boyle\u2019s interview about today\u2019s developments with Democracy Now!<\/i> producer Ren\u00e9e Feltz. Scroll down to read the transcript.<\/i><\/p>\n

Click here to see all of our coverage of Lynne Stewart.<\/a> You can also watch our recent show that looked at the many other elderly political prisoners<\/a> seeking release, including Oscar Lopez Rivera and Leonard Peltier.<\/p>\n

Stewart has served almost four years of a 10-year prison sentence for distributing press releases on behalf of her jailed client, Omar Abdel Rahman, an Egyptian cleric known as the \u201cblind Sheikh.\u201d In August, Judge Koeltl rejected a request that would have allowed her to die surrounded by her loved ones, saying he could not order her release unless it was first requested by the Bureau of Prisons, which had turned down Stewart\u2019s bid for release, saying she is not sick enough. Since then, her doctor has said she has less than 18 months to live.<\/p>\n

Lynne Stewart Motion<\/a><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 democracynow.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

31 Dec 2013 – Earlier today, federal Judge John Koeltl ordered the “compassionate release” of [74-year old] Lynne Stewart. He wrote that “Stewart\u2019s “terminal medical condition [cancer] and very limited life expectancy constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons that warrant the requested reduction [of her sentence].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}