WASHINGTON — President Biden is commuting the sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenders. Biden said today that the move targets “disproportionately long” sentences compared to the ones that are handed down today. Some of those sentences were a result of legislation in the 1980s that he helped craft as a senator. “Today’s clemency action provides […]
President Barack Obama granted clemency to 231 individuals Monday, according to The White House.
President Obama commuted the prison sentences of 79 inmates on Tuesday, upholding his pledge to release non-violent and low-level, drug offenders, The Hill reports.
President Obama made history on Wednesday by issuing the largest amount of commutations the nation has ever seen in a single day. He commuted the sentences of 214 federal inmates, many of whom were behind bars for low-level drug offenses. President Obama used these commutations as an avenue to directly combat lengthy minimum sentences. Some […]
Today President Barack Obama put his pen where his values are and commuted the sentences of 22 incarcerated Americans, more than doubling the number of…
