President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.
Massachusetts man on Biden’s clemency list had teenager make fentanyl deliveries, Boston man is a longtime crack cocaine dealer
This morning President Joe Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people serving longer prison terms for convictions related to crack cocaine. In doing so, Biden made history and set the record for the most total individual commutations by a president in history at over 4,000.
Outgoing president’s announcement comes just weeks after he pardoned son Hunter following drug addiction battle
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 breaks clemency records, labels pardons as an efforts to correct 'historic injustices.' More pardons than Trump, previous presidents
With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,' Biden noted in a statement.
I guess sex trafficking, violent assault, gun possession and murder all count as “non-violent drug offenses” in Joe Biden’s America, and crime victims are irrelevant.
President Joe Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of ... who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated sentencing enhancements for drug crimes," he said.