U.S. Weighs Clemency for Inmates Jailed for 10 YearsWASHINGTON - The Obama administration is encouraging manynonviolent federal prisoners to apply...Tucker, Eric
Biden to commute sentences of nearly all men on federal death row New Jersey New Jersey governor pardons nearly three dozen in first clemency act White House Biden granted clemency to the ‘kids-for-cash’ judge. The White House didn’t consider the case specifics. ...
BOSTON - President Joe Biden announced Monday that he iscommuting the sentencesof 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row. Thelistof convicted killers granted clemency by the president does not include surviving Boston Marathon bomberDzhokhar Tsarnaev. In addition to Tsarnaev, Biden also chos...
while attorneys for the inmates pointed out troublesome charges, including the use of torture on suspects to make them confess. In January 2003, Governor Ryan took the unprecedented step of granting clemency to all the death row inmates. He pardoned four inmates who he believed were not guilty...
In 2024, African Americans, who make up about 11 percent of the population, constituted 38.9 percent of federal prison inmates. Between 1980 and 2013, spending on federal prisons shot up by almost 600 percent. All this, even though the rate of violent crime peaked in 1991, crack cocaine...
Rufus Rochell, 68, who is serving a 35-year sentence for a drug […] Most vulnerable prison population is in great peril… - Roughly 50,000 inmates at federal prisons meet criteria for release to home confinement based on guidelines in the CARES Act, and the Department of Justice Bureau ...
Obama has granted dozens of pardons and commutations about once a month since August, and in December, he gave clemency toa record231 federal inmates on a single day— a record that he broke on Tuesday and again on Thursday. Although pardons are typically granted to people years after their ...
Mr. Garcia’s “How To” book is well-written, timely and mainly for people who cannot afford a lawyer — it will help inmates’ families learn clemency, parole and other release options and strategies. Fred Levin, Esq., the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame and namesake of the UF Levin College...
As the president’s first term approaches its end, calls for Biden to more aggressively and widely exercise his clemency power before incoming president Donald Trump takes office have only grown louder – including by taking several dozen inmates off of federal death row. (Biden...
many of our pot prisoners in the following article, including, Pedro Moreno, Luke Scarmazzo, Donald Fugitt, Lance Gloor, and Michael Pelletier WASHINGTON — On the eve of the 4/20 cannabis holiday, federal inmates again are wondering if and when President Biden will make good on his 2020 [...