17 (UPI) --President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted ... On Dec. 12, Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals ...

Former President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Jamel A ... He said he was commuting the 2,500 criminal sentences for nonviolent drug offenses that he described as "disproportionately ...

Alice Marie Johnson, who was appointed as “pardon czar" by President Donald Trump, explained the key policy differences ...

The back-to-back presidential clemencies by Biden and Trump leaned on politics, drawing intensive scrutiny of the process and ...

A draconian federal policy enforces a lifetime of punishment by denying Fair Housing protections to individuals convicted of ...

On his last full working day in office, President Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 federal prisoners ... not a high-level kingpin offender that federal ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence in the 1975 ...

A Native American activist who has been incarcerated for nearly 50 years was released from a Florida prison Tuesday after former President Joe Biden commuted his life sentence. Leonard Peltier ...

(The Hill) – President Biden on Friday announced he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted ... Last month, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death ...

For nearly half a century ... where he is expected to celebrate with friends and family on Wednesday. Biden commuted Peltier's sentence Jan. 20, noting he had spent most of his life in prison ...

Throughout his nearly half-century in ... The Kansas City Star via AP, File) Biden did not pardon Peltier. But his Jan. 20 commutation of Peltier’s sentence to home confinement, noting Peltier ...