A former Jan. 6 defendant convicted last month of making a threat against a government facility and unlawfully possessing ...

Bridgeport's mayor, whom voters granted a second chance in office following his corruption conviction, has a pending federal pardon application.

Trump has bucked the trend of previous presidents, who have typically issued most of their acts of clemency during their final months in office.

These clemency grants came under sharp criticism by some Republicans, who accused Obama of imposing his political will to end certain mandatory minimum sentences – which many argued at the time ...

President Barack Obama granted executive clemency to more than 1,900 federal prisoners, a record. Jesse Webster made the most of his freedom. Three others are back in jail.

We thought the 18,000 clemency figure for Obama sounded high based on our fact-check of a Facebook post comparing the pardon records of Obama and Trump. It was.

Biden pushed back with a defense of the Obama/Biden administration’s efforts related to criminal justice. "Yeah, we did. 18,000 people got clemency," Biden said.

Obama's clemency initiative, which began in 2014, was targeted at non-violent dealers who received mandatory-minimum sentences during the crackdown on drugs that began in the 1980s.

Obama also received more petitions for clemency than any recent president. Neil Eggleston, who served as White House counsel from April 2014 until the end of President Barack Obama's second term.

From one angle, former President Barack Obama was the most merciful president in U.S. history, granting commutations to more than 1,700 federal prisoners. As a president who took issue broadly with ...

President Obama granted clemency to more people than any president in 64 years as part of his 2014 Clemency Initiative for drug offenders, according to the Pew Research Center. This initiative ...

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 day.