WASHINGTON — President Obama granted clemency Monday to 46 men and women who faced decades in prison for non-violent, drug offenses, part of an overall effort to address sentencing disparities ...

WASHINGTON — For 126 federal inmates who received presidential clemency last month, the good news might have come with a dose of disappointment. President Obama had granted their requests for ...

Obama has granted dozens of pardons and commutations about once a month since August, and in December, he gave clemency to a record 231 federal inmates on a single day — a record that he broke ...

Clemency. President Obama's Clemency Project is a Bureaucratic Nightmare The slowness and disorganization of the clemency process put in place has stranded many of the prisoners and families it ...

When the Obama administration unveiled its clemency initiative in the spring of 2014, criminal justice advocates celebrated. After decades fighting what felt like an uphill battle over racial ...

Clemency. This Inmate Received Clemency from Obama. He Still Might Die in Prison On his last day in office, Obama commuted the sentences of 330 inmates. For one of those prisoners, it was a bitter ...

Obama has granted 306 commutations to federal prisoners — more than the past six presidents combined. But as of Friday, 9,115 commutation petitions were pending with little time left to review them.

Snowden hasn't formally applied for clemency, though his supporters have called for it. Yet Obama has taken a dim view of Snowden because he refuses to return to the U.S. from Russia to face charges.

President Obama granted pardons to two people and commuted the sentences of 95 others on Friday, marking his most expansive use of the clemency power yet as his presidency enters its final year.

President Barack Obama on Monday granted clemency to 231 individuals, the largest single day act of his presidency and totaling 1,324 total while in office. CNN values your feedback 1.