Compassionate release twice rejected for dying inmate

As Sharon Martin pulled into the Franklin Medical Center last week to visit her brother, inmate John Pringle, she got the bad news. John had died just minutes earlier. Pringle had been sick, dying in fact, for months. He was riddled with cancer. "His biggest thing was he didn't want to die alone in prison. And that's exactly what happened," Martin said. "He made a mistake, and he had to pay for it until he died." It was the end of the line for efforts by Martin, her mother, Ada Richards, and Bev