“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,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The commutations, announced in a statement Thursday, are for people who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to the commutations, Biden is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes.”
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