Read Rita Crundwell's letter asking for compassionate release from federal prison

Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell is asking for compassionate release from Pekin federal prison due to her fear of contracting COVID-19. Crundwell wrote a 7-and-a-half page request to Judge Philip Reinhard, filed April 27 in federal court in Rockford. In his response, filed April 29, Reinhard notes that, per statute, Crundwell can file a motion seeking compassionate release after she "has fully exhausted all administrative rights to appeal a failure of the Bureau of Prisons to bring a motion on the defendant's behalf or the lapse of 30 days from the receipt of such a request by the warden of the defendant's facility."