The owners responsible for the management of the Peanut Corporation of America will remain in prison pending their late-May hearings to overturn their convictions and sentences that they attribute to ineffective counsel.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to release the brothers on compassionate grounds, but both have received COVID vaccinations. Despite extensive appeals, the last of which was rejected in March by the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, both the Parnell brothers face prolonged incarceration.