US Sentencing Commission releases updated “Compassionate Release” data report

I flagged in this recent post the US Sentencing Commission’s latest release of new sets of its terrific “Quick Facts” publications with updates drawing on the USSC’s full fiscal year 2023 data. But I did not want to forget that the USSC also now has available on this data page its latest “Compassionate Release” data report. Specifically, the USSC describes its “FY 2024 Third Quarterly Report (Published August 15, 2024)” this way:

This report provides an analysis of the compassionate release motions filed with the courts and decided through the third quarter of fiscal year 2024. Table 1 and Figure 1, combine this data with data on compassionate release motions from prior fiscal years to facilitate trend analyses. The data in this report is limited to motions for which the Commission received or obtained court documentation and completed its analysis by August 9, 2024.

Table 1 of this data report reinforces my sense that a rough steady pattern now emerged in recent years for sentence reduction motions in federal courts, with each month a few hundred motions being resolved and a few dozen being granted.

Over at the Sentencing Matters Substack, a few of us have been writing about second-look sentencing more generally.  Here are a couple of the most recent posts in this arena:

“Bryan Stevenson, Second Looks, and Lasting Reverberations“

“Should Second Look Efforts Focus Particularly on Drug Offense Sentences?”