He said he believes it would help Brown’s case to obtain “documentation and records to better support her assertions" and then refile the motion.Kent argues that conditions for Brown have reached a “crisis stage” and that Brown was notified this week that her entire unit is being moved to double-bunk with another unit because the facility is taking in two infected inmates from a county jail.Kent added the inmate Brown would have been bunking with is coughing.Brown filed a request for compassionate release with the warden at FCI Coleman on Feb. 26. The official told News4Jax Brown “put a lot of political pressure on” to get released.“These conditions would prove fatal were she to become infected with COVID-19,” Kent argued. Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, who two years ago began serving a five-year federal sentence for her part in a fraud scheme that helped end her long career, has been released from prison. Federal prison website now lists Corrine Brown release date.
The agency did not provide further details. Congresswoman Corrine Brown. The size of her heart has increased since she’s been in prison, probably caused by hypertension, and acid reflux and the enlarged heart are making her newly-diagnosed asthma worse, according to the motion.At the time of that outbreak, Brown was given an antibiotic based on her symptoms but was not given a diagnosis, her attorney, William Kent, explained in the motion.Lynnsey Gardner is an Edward R. Murrow award-winning investigative reporter and fill-in anchor for The Local Station.
Since being incarcerated, Brown's health has “declined considerably” and has “deteriorated to an alarming degree,” according to the motion.Copyright 2020 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.Under federal law, compassionate release allows an inmate to be released when there are “extraordinary and compelling reasons.”Kent filed the emergency motion for compassionate release on Brown’s behalf but withdrew the motion after speaking “at length” with prosecutors. The Bureau of Prisons also requires that an inmate be quarantined for 14 days before release.Brown's attorney declined to answer questions, and a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told Spectrum News that it doesn't comment on individual inmates' confinement conditions.This contradicts multiple reports and information from knowledgeable sources who say the Department of Justice has ordered that prisoners must have served 50% of their sentence to be considered for home confinement.She had been serving time at the Coleman federal correction complex.According to court records, Brownâs attorney had filed for compassionate release two weeks ago but withdrew that request just one day later. Brown, who served in Congress for more than 20 years and whose district once stretched from Jacksonville to Orlando, was sentenced in January 2018 to five years in prison on 18 counts involving taking money from a charity and lying on her taxes and Congressional financial disclosure forms.Families of inmates have told Spectrum News that their relatives -- some of whom have served more than half their sentence -- have been waiting weeks to find out whether they qualify for home confinement.According to the federal Bureau of Prisons website, her release date is listed as May 2, 2022 -- meaning she's served less than half her time in prison. She got a denial on Monday.