When President Barack Obama commuted the sentences last week of 214 nonviolent drug offenders, he changed the lives of many inmates who may never have expected to leave prison. The action also had a ...

Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant, was later convicted of charges stemming from livestreaming a bomb threat in 2023 as he drove around former President Barack Obama's D.C. neighborhood while ...

In 1997, Fulton Washington was sentenced to life in prison for non-violent offenses. He says he was wrongfully convicted. In prison, he taught himself how to paint. In 2014, he made a painting based ...

CBS News reports that two prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. were put on leave after filing a sentencing memo ...

As soon as Donald Trump took office for his second term, he began using his clemency power at a steady clip. It started with ...