OAN Staff Abril Elfi
5:25 PM – Friday, January 17, 2025
President Joe Biden has issued individual pardons and commutations to nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders.
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On Friday, Biden announced that he was commuting the sentences of 2,490 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Adding that they are “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.”
“Today’s clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions…
