On Tuesday, President Barack Obama granted commutations for an additional 111 federal inmates, bringing the total number of grants offered up to 325 in the month of August alone—the largest number of ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama commuted the sentences of 61 prisoners on Wednesday, part of an effort to more aggressively use the commutation power and call for changes to sentencing laws, particularly ...

President Barack Obama made a commitment to use his clemency authority through the remainder of his time in office, and on Thursday he honored that commitment by granting another 98 commutations.

An attorney for Chelsea Manning expressed his gratitude and excitement following the news that President Obama had commuted the sentence of the former Army soldier. During an interview with MSNBC host ...

WASHINGTON — Two Rock Island men are among 214 federal inmates who had their sentences cut short Wednesday by President Barack Obama in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on ...

WASHINGTON -- Calling America "a nation of second chances," President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent drug offenders on Monday in what the White House hopes will be just one ...

President Obama commuted the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders today, including 14 who had been sentenced to life in prison. It was a long-awaited move for a president who before this year ...