President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.
Massachusetts man on Biden’s clemency list had teenager make fentanyl deliveries, Boston man is a longtime crack cocaine dealer
This morning President Joe Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people serving longer prison terms for convictions related to crack cocaine. In doing so, Biden made history and set the record for the most total individual commutations by a president in history at over 4,000.
Outgoing president’s announcement comes just weeks after he pardoned son Hunter following drug addiction battle
With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,' Biden noted in a statement.
President Joe Biden breaks clemency records, labels pardons as an efforts to correct 'historic injustices.' More pardons than Trump, previous presidents
A Columbia man who pleaded guilty to selling crack in Mid-Missouri for several years will get out of jail a decade sooner than he was sentenced. Malcolm Redmon was arrested in August 2014 by local and federal law enforcement on Sanford Avenue in central Columbia.
I guess sex trafficking, violent assault, gun possession and murder all count as “non-violent drug offenses” in Joe Biden’s America, and crime victims are irrelevant.
Former President Joe Biden's commutations of Connecticut federal cases included clemency for Bridgeport's Adrian Peeler and Jermayne Butler of New Haven.
President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders whose sentences were longer than they’d receive under current standards, the White House said in a statement on Friday.
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.
Lairon Graham was sentenced a year ago to 22 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and four counts of sex trafficking by force or coercion. In his last days in office,