Robyn0312 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For somebody to be released on compassionate > medical grounds I believe that they should be of > the state that they require permanent medical care > and are therefore being released into medical care > ie. a hospital or holistic hospice for the dying, > rather than into the general community. I think I would agree with this. Release should be conditional rather than absolute - if they turn out not to be as sick as previously thought then they should return. This is of course going to be harder to implement in the case of foreign prisoners such as the libyan jailed for the Lockerbee case.