Gov. Gretchen Whitmer granted five clemency requests on Tuesday, including sentence reductions for two people convicted of ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

All of them had been living in residential confinement, but the list included some involved in drug and health care rings.

Outgoing member John Williams faced criticism from advocates after asking sexual questions and consistently voting no against ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...

Last summer, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a new clemency initiative designed to fast-track the review of certain applications for pardons or commutations. He's issued two "rounds" of actions since then ...

Alice Marie Johnson, who was appointed as "pardon czar" by President Donald Trump, explained the key differences between Trump and former President Biden's commutations of prison sentences in an ...

“American communities, disproportionately Black and brown, have long borne the scars of the drug war. Extreme and racist sentences for crack cocaine offenses tore apart families. Children grew up ...

Polis converted the death sentences of the men — Nathan Dunlap, Robert Ray and Sir Mario Owens — to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The governor’s decision marks one of the most ...