President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates convicted of non-violent drug offenses in the final days of his presidency.

President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a ...

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

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden drafted the Senate version of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement ...

In President Trump’s first week, the new administration revoked Biden-era Department of Justice policies designed to mitigate ...

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

President Biden has commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, making it the most extensive use of this power by a US president. The move addresses ...

President Joe Biden announced Friday he is commuting 2,500 criminal sentences for nonviolent drug offenses that he described as "disproportionately long" compared to modern-day sentences.

Shell was second-in-command to Larry Hoover, who's serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Colorado. Shell, ...

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

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Friday in Washington, D.C., to publish proposed changes in how drug offenses ...