Although women are comprising an ever-larger part of the prison population, they are being housed in a correctional system that was primarily designed for men.

NACDL to Focus on Service and Support for Members, Clients, and Community Throughout Virus Emergency

European Crim. Bar Assn. Principles on Use of Video Conf. in Post-COVID World (9-6-20)

Penn. Motion In Limine Objecting to COVID Trial Procedures (8-24-20)

Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Calls for Prompt Implementation of Comprehensive, Concrete, and Transparent COVID-19 Coronavirus Readiness Plans for Nation’s Prisons, Jails, and Other Detention Facilities -- Washington, DC (March 4, 2020) – The modern American way of criminal justice — mass incarceration on a scale exceeding both the absolute and per capita incarceration numbers of virtually every nation on earth — has set the stage for potentially catastrophic consequences in light of the emerging COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic affecting the globe.

Iris Eytan, Dru Nielsen, and special guest moderator Martin Sabelli join the Engage & Exchange Discussion for COVID-19 & Courts Reopening - Lessons Learned in Litigation. 

EDNY: August 26, 2020, United States District Judge Gary R. Brown Memorandum and Order

Order granting compassionate release: waiving exhaustion and granting compassionate release due to age, diabetes, hypertension, obesity; “When the Court sentenced Zukerman, the Court did not intend for that sentence to ‘include a great and unforeseen risk of severe illness or death’ brought on by a global pandemic.”

Order granting compassionate release grant for defendant serving 20-year mandatory-minimum sentence for drug distribution and unlawful firearm possession, due to diabetes, high blood pressure, and liver abnormalities, during COVID-19 pandemic.

Order granting compassionate release for drug defendant with 60-month sentence who had served only 8 1/2 months, citing hypertension, obesity, diabetes who had tested positive for COVID.

Order granting compassionate release for 45-year-old, diabetic, with hypertension and asthma, who had served 21 months of 60 month sentence despite lack of confirmed cases at prison.

Order granting compassionate release to defendant with hypertension, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and  high cholesterol, who had served half his sentence despite the fact BOP had granted home detention because the required prison quarantine before release was a “dangerous set of conditions and Kafkaesque approach.”

Coalition letter to members of the Senate regarding proposals for compassionate release and elderly home detention programs outlined in the COVID-19 Safer Detention Act of 2020 (S. 4034).

In her letter to the editor, Katty Kauffman points out that court interpreters play a vital role in protecting a defendant’s constitutional rights.

Although businesses and individuals were sharing information and data with third-party vendors long before the COVID-19 outbreak, use of remote work tools is sure to endure long after the outbreak passes, making privacy concerns even more important.