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
President Joe Biden breaks clemency records, labels pardons as an efforts to correct 'historic injustices.' More pardons than Trump, previous presidents
With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,' Biden noted in a statement.
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.
President Joe Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of ... who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated sentencing enhancements for drug crimes," he said.
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,
Relatives of an 8-year-old boy and his mother who were murdered by a Connecticut drug gang are outraged that a man convicted in the killings was one of nearly 2,500 people whose drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden in his last days in office.
President Joe Biden officially pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott on the 1994 federal drug charges for which Scott previously served eight years in prison.
With Friday's (January 17) move, Biden has granted more individual pardons and commutations than any previous president.