In his final day in the White House, President Barack Obama commutated sentences for 330 drug prisoners. The outgoing president has now issued 1,715 commutations.
According to ABC13, President Obama pardoned 78 people on Monday (December 19th) and shortened the sentences of 153 other federal inmates, in the largest number of clemencies in a single day by any president. Obama has been granting a large number of commutations in his final months in office, most of them shortening sentences of those […]
According to USA Today, President Obama granted clemency to another 102 federal inmates yesterday (October 6th), 34 of whom had been serving life sentences, allowing them to leave prison early. Obama has now granted 774 commutations, 590 of them during this final year of his presidency, which the White House says is more than the previous […]
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House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) released the following joint statement after the White House announced President Obama granted commutations to 61 individuals: “I am encouraged by President Obama’s commutation of sentences of 61 individuals today, including five from Texas. All of these men and […]
