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 ...

Though applications for clemency tripled last year, Obama has granted few petitions. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app U.S. Politics Sports ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

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.

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 ...

President Barack Obama’s historic visit to a federal prison Thursday shows that his head and his heart are in the right place on criminal justice reform. As he said a few days earlier, &#8220… ...

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.