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To successfully use Pennsylvania's 'compassionate release' law, he had to choose to die · Spotlight PA - Spotlight PA

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There is bipartisan agreement that it’s too hard for people serving life in prison to get out when they are aging and ailing. But two proposals to change that face an uncertain future.
Leise Hook / For Spotlight PA
There is bipartisan agreement that it’s too hard for people serving life in prison to get out when they are aging and ailing. But two proposals to change that face an uncertain future.
Leise Hook / For Spotlight PA
Pennsylvania’s narrow criteria for “compassionate release” have resulted in only 31 people successfully making use of the program in 13 years.
DAVID SWANSON / Philadelphia Inquirer
Gareth Hall, left, and his wife Fe Hall, right, look on during a vigil for their late son Christian Hall in December. Their lawsuit claims troopers used excessive force, killing Hall as he tried to surrender and after they said they would not shoot him.
Matt Smith / For Spotlight PA
The rare public records lawsuit centers on whether data held by the agency’s cell phone provider must be turned over in response to a state Right-to-Know request.
Kent M. Wilhelm / Spotlight PA
The access problems date back to late 2019, when a computer that allowed the public to access criminal records for free was removed from the first floor of the York County courthouse.
Ed Mahon / PA Post
Pennsylvania State Police agreed to make changes or consider policy revisions based on a state oversight committee’s recommendations, but they did not give up the ability to investigate their own.
DAN GLEITER / PennLive
Gov. Tom Wolf delivered his final budget address to the legislature Tuesday.
Commonwealth Media Services
Since 1968, the year Pennsylvania’s current constitution went into effect, voters rejected only six of 49 proposed amendments that reached them.
William Thomas Cain / For The Inquirer
Gov. Tom Wolf has vowed to veto the plan in its current form.
TYGER WILLIAMS / Philadelphia Inquirer


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