President Obama visits the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma July 2015. He was the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. *Uh oh, here’s some distressing news regarding ...

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 ...

*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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

President Barack Obama made a commitment to use his clemency authority through the remainder of his time in office, and on Thursday he honored that commitment by granting another 98 commutations.

In 1977 Native American activist Leonard Peltier was put behind bars, where he has remained in federal custody ever since, for the murder of two FBI agents. But he hasn’t given up on being released: A ...

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 ...

Over the next several weeks, President Obama is expected to commute the sentences of up 80 people, serving time for non-violent, drug-related offenses, according to the New York Times. The move is ...

Melissa Harris-Perry, host of MSNBC’s newest weekend show Melissa Harris-Perry, normally uses her “Open Letter” segment to dispense wisdom to some conservative who badly needs it, and normally, those ...

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 ...