A federal judge calls for giving New York state judges the ability to reevaluate sentences in cases where a person has ...

The government agency responsible for implementing federal sentencing policy has taken the first step toward loosening controversial methamphetamine trafficking punishments that have flooded prisons ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

The Kerala High Court urged the Parliament to amend the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act to address ...

Washington Democrats want lighter sentences for dangerous criminals because too many offenders are black, they argue.

The grant of clemency, Biden explained, “provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited ...

Bitcoiners celebrate as the pardon came hours after Senator Rand Paul sent a compelling letter to the White House.

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With Friday's (January 17) move, Biden has granted more individual pardons and commutations than any previous president.

"With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history," President Joe Biden wrote in his announcement Friday.

The announcement, coupled with Biden’s decision last month to commute the sentences of about 1,500 people put on home ...