President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a ...
The US justice department has moved to end the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offences, ending a policy widely seen as racist. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a ...
The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, is the broadest ...
President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 convicted criminals — setting a new record for most ...
The president said that with Friday's action he has "now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president ...
In a final report on his investigation, special counsel David Weiss said President Biden's criticism "undermines the very ...
(CNN) — President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in his final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.
The Department ... of Justice based solely on false accusations," he wrote. Hunter Biden was convicted in June of federal gun charges for lying about his addiction to crack cocaine when he ...