Chief Justice John Marshall described a presidential grant of clemency as an “act of grace.” The president’s constitutional power to grant pardons and reprieves descends from the “prerogative of mercy ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses — as roughly the same number of marijuana prisoners await word ...

President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in his final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.

With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,' Biden noted in a statement.

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This morning President Joe Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of nearly ...

Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer of the Department of Justice said in a Jan. 18 email to U.S. attorneys that commutations by ...

American communities, disproportionately Black and brown, have long borne the scars of the Drug War. Extreme and racist ...

Donald Walters, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to dog fighting and running a crack-cocaine ring in Tulsa, may be released five ...