From The Appeal:
Written by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
In a scathing ruling, a federal judge lambasted the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for neglecting the medical needs of incarcerated people, comparing federal lock-ups to the “Soviet Gulag.”
“Outside medical referrals are like Solzhenitsyn’s sick bay in the Soviet Gulag: a coveted but nearly inaccessible refuge for which only prisoners near death qualify for admission,” U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton wrote in his order granting compassionate release to a woman on home confinement in Florida.
2021, the woman was sentenced to eight years in prison. In 2025, the BOP moved her to home confinement.
On January 16, 2026, she filed a motion requesting compassionate release after a doctor found lumps in both breasts and blood discharge from her nipples, according to the judge’s order. Continue reading >>>.
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