Taylor Taranto was convicted last month of making a false threat to a government facility and unlawfully possessing guns and ...

These clemency grants came under sharp criticism by some Republicans, who accused Obama of imposing his political will to end certain mandatory minimum sentences – which many argued at the time ...

President Joe Biden set a single-day record of clemency in the United States. He commuted nearly 1,500 sentences of people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the ...

President Barack Obama granted executive clemency to more than 1,900 federal prisoners, a record. Jesse Webster made the most of his freedom. Three others are back in jail.

We thought the 18,000 clemency figure for Obama sounded high based on our fact-check of a Facebook post comparing the pardon records of Obama and Trump. It was.

Biden pushed back with a defense of the Obama/Biden administration’s efforts related to criminal justice. "Yeah, we did. 18,000 people got clemency," Biden said.

Obama's clemency initiative, which began in 2014, was targeted at non-violent dealers who received mandatory-minimum sentences during the crackdown on drugs that began in the 1980s.

From one angle, former President Barack Obama was the most merciful president in U.S. history, granting commutations to more than 1,700 federal prisoners. As a president who took issue broadly with ...

President Obama granted clemency to more people than any president in 64 years as part of his 2014 Clemency Initiative for drug offenders, according to the Pew Research Center. This initiative ...

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 day.

With his final offer of clemency, Obama brought his total number of commutations to 1,715 — more than any President in history.

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 ...