Breaking: Biden Commutes Sentences of Almost 2,500 Drug Offenders, Breaking Presidential Record
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President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders on Friday, just days before president-elect Donald Trump moves into the White House.
With the announcement, Biden has set a new record for most pardons and commutations issued by a president.
“Today's clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated sentencing enhancements for drug crimes,” Biden said in a statement. “This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too much time behind bars.”
The president will “continue to review additional commutations and pardons” over his three days left in office, he added.
Names of the almost 2,500 inmates have not yet been released.
Biden notoriously pardoned his son Hunter, who was awaiting sentencing on two criminal convictions — tax fraud and a gun crime — as well as facing investigations into his alleged criminal behavior.
In December, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 remaining federal death row inmates. Among the 37 inmates who had their sentences reclassified to to life in prison without the possibility of parole were white supremacist Ricky Allen Fackrell, who killed a prison inmate, Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, who once fled prison and killed two women, and Daryl Lawrence, who murdered a cop during a robbery.
Also in December, Biden mass communicated the sentences of almost 1,500 people and pardoned 39 non-violent criminals who had been placed in home confinement during the pandemic.
“America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Biden said in a statement at the time. “As President, I have the great privilege of extending mercy to people who have demonstrated remorse and rehabilitation, restoring opportunity for Americans to participate in daily life and contribute to their communities, and taking steps to remove sentencing disparities for non-violent offenders, especially those convicted of drug offenses.”
One of the men whose sentence Biden commuted was Michael Conahan, a Pennsylvania judge at the center of the “kids-for-cash” scandal. Conahan pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges in 2011 after being accused of sending juvenile delinquents to private for-profit prisons in exchange for more than $2 million.
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