The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, is the broadest ...

A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s ...

Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, setting a presidential ...

President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a ...

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...

Criminal Justice Advocates made great strides under Trump with the First Step Act. In a second Trump term, they are poised to ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing hearing Friday in his business ... the jury and the entire justice system. He told the court’s probation department that he refuses to accept any ...

The announcement, coupled with Biden’s decision last month to commute the sentences of about 1,500 people put on home ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few ...

The Department of Justice has proposed that a Pennsylvania barber convicted on multiple charges involving the Jan. 6, 2021, ...

The announcement follows President Joe Biden’s dramatic step to commute the sentences of 37 federal inmates facing execution ...