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
With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,' Biden noted in a statement.
President Joe Biden breaks clemency records, labels pardons as an efforts to correct 'historic injustices.' More pardons than Trump, previous presidents
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.
US President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenders on Friday, marking the highest number of pardons and commutations issued by a president in US history. Biden said he
With Friday's (January 17) move, Biden has granted more individual pardons and commutations than any previous president.
The outgoing president is making his final days in office memorable by shattering records with the most pardons ever handed out by a U.S. president.
President Biden's historic commutations address racial disparities and outdated sentencing laws, cementing his legacy as a champion of justice and civil rights.
Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon,