Biden commutes sentences for 1,500, pardons 39 convicted of non-violent crimes
President Joe Biden said Thursday that he was pardoning 39 people who were convicted of non-violent crimes and was commuting the sentences of 1,500 people on home confinement, who he said have "shown successful rehabilitation and have shown commitment to making their communities stronger and safer."
Biden commutes 1,500 sentences, issues 39 pardons in 'largest single-day grant of clemency'
The White House announced on Thursday that it would commute the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals placed on home confinement and will pardon 39 others convicted of non-violent crimes.
Biden commutes the sentences for 1,500 people, the largest act of clemency in a day
The 1,500 people had been serving long prison sentences that would have been shorter under today's laws and practices. They had been on home confinement since the COVID pandemic.
Biden issues 39 presidential pardons and commutes 1,500 sentences
US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people. The White House described it as the most acts of presidential clemency issued in a single day. It has not given the names of the people involved.
Biden Commutes 1,500 Sentences—the Most Pardons by a US President in a Day
Joe Biden has commuted around 1500 sentences, marking the largest single-day clemency action in modern U.S. history.
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences
President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 offenders and pardon 39 others, in what the White House said early Thursday was the biggest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day.
President Joe Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people
Biden said he will "take more steps in the weeks ahead" and continue to review clemency petitions to advance "equal justice under the law."
Biden to Commute Sentences of Around 1,500 People
President Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 people, in what constitutes the largest single-day act of clemency for any president in modern history, according to the White House. The commutations,
Biden grants clemency to nearly 1,500 people: White House
Outgoing President Joe Biden said Thursday he had commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others, in what the White House called the largest single-day act of clemency in US history.
Biden to commute sentences of 1,500 ‘non-violent' offenders, in the biggest single-day act of clemency to date
America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” the president said in a statement Thursday.
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