Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul granted pardons to 19 formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, according to WETM, but prison reform advocates ...

President Joe Biden began his fourth-to-last-day in office by announcing the commutations of prison sentences for thousands of nonviolent drug offenders. The presidential action makes Biden the ...

Hours after Democratic President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of nearly everyone on federal death row, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced his own pardons and commutations — ...

President Joe Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Biden has now set the presidential record for most individual pardons and ...

Two days before President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office, President Joe Biden announced he is commuting nearly 2,500 sentences, setting a record for the most pardons and commutations ...

President Joe Biden today broke his own record for the most commutations issued in a single day, shortening the sentences of nearly 2,500 people who are serving time in federal prisons for nonviolent ...

President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 offenders and pardon 39 others in what the White House said early Thursday was the most commutations and clemencies granted in a single ...

President Biden announced Friday that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, the latest in a series of pardons he’s issued before departing the ...

LANSING, MI — This holiday season, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued several pardons and commutations for those convicted of armed robbery and drug offenses. One of the beneficiaries is a Saginaw ...

As we celebrate the birth of Christ — a season grounded in mercy and hope — President Joe Biden has exemplified these values with his decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates on ...