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 ...

Marilyn Mosby deserves credit for her impactful tenure when it comes to criminal justice, her former communications director ...

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

Former President Joe Biden ignored recommendations made by his own Department of Justice (DOJ) and commuted the sentences of ...

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China are linked to the fentanyl crisis. But what is fentanyl and how has it spawned a ...

The DOJ’s career pardon attorney told prosecutors that some of Biden’s moves to shorten sentences were “very upsetting.” ...

Marilyn Mosby's fight for drug reform and reforming drug laws is highlighted in this article, despite Biden's decision not to ...

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

U.S. District Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee, said “In less than a month, the federal courts have been inundated by more than 5,500 mass pardons and grants of executive clemency that seemingly ...

Pachino Hill is scheduled to be released from federal prison about four years early thanks to the last round of clemency orders signed by former President Joe Biden.

Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s ...

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