Last month, President Obama announced a new series of pardons and commutations for federal prisoners, just like he has for the past three years, just before the First Family leaves for their Christmas ...

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 ...

President Obama announced that he was commuting the sentences of 61 federal drug offenders on Wednesday—even as thousands of inmates’ petitions seeking clemency remain outstanding. Almost all of the ...

On Monday, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 46 men and women, almost all of whom were serving lengthy sentences for drug crimes. Suggested Reading Why People Are STILL Furious at ...

Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera has returned to Puerto Rico to serve the remainder of his sentence commuted by former president Barack Obama just before he left office. Lopez Rivera, 74, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, allowing the Army intelligence officer who leaked scores of classified documents to go free nearly ...

President Barack Obama has granted clemency to Oscar Lopez-Rivera who has been in federal prison since 1981. Lopez-Rivera grew up in Chicago and was convicted of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the ...

Wednesday’s commutations by President Obama, which brings his total number to 562, represent the most granted by a president in a single day since at least 1900, according to the White House blog.

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O.J. Simpson is asking President Barack Obama for clemency, saying he may have brain cancer and should be allowed to leave his Nevada jail cell, the Washington Times reports. Suggested Reading ...

The Department of Justice is instructing lawyers to seek out and advise low-level drug offenders serving extensive prison sentences so that they ask for clemency, in an attempt to retroactively ...

UPDATE, Jan. 18: As many, many media sources have reported, Chelsea Manning’s sentence has been commuted, and she should be released in five months. While creators of the #HugsForChelsea hashtag ...