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 ...

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.

Freedom is coming to 22 federal prisoners after President Obama granted them clemency yesterday. The prisoners, who are all incarcerated on drug-related charges, are scheduled to be released in July.

Some 4,000 lawyers and 70 big firms helped in this effort to commute the sentences of low-level drug offenders who've served significant prison time. But relatively few inmates have been released.

Barack Obama earned a new presidential record by commuting the sentences of 214 people this week, the highest number of shortened sentences in one day since 1900, according to a White House press ...

*You may recall one of the things former president, Barack Obama, did before he left office, was grant clemency to more than 1700 inmates who held life sentences but for non-violent drug offences.

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 ...

Manning had already served seven years of her sentence before Obama commuted it, and she will be released May 17, 2017.Manning admitted to “releasing more than 700,000 documents, including battlefield ...

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 ...

A petition asking President Obama to grant clemency to former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has 75 signatures. Organizers need 100,000 signatures to get a response from the White House.