Biden commutes nearly 2,500 more sentences in final days of presidency

President Biden announced Friday greeting helium is commuting the sentences of astir 2,500 inmates arsenic the extremity of his presidency draws near.

The commutations are for radical convicted of non-violent cause offenses "who are serving disproportionately agelong sentences" compared to what they would person if sentenced nether today's law.

"Today’s clemency enactment provides alleviation for individuals who received lengthy sentences based connected discredited distinctions betwixt ace and pulverization cocaine, arsenic good arsenic outdated sentencing enhancements for cause crimes," Biden said successful a statement.

The president said present is the clip to "equalize these sentencing disparities" arsenic recognized done the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 and the First Step Act of 2018.

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"This enactment is an important measurement toward righting historical wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the accidental to instrumentality to their families and communities aft spending acold excessively overmuch clip down bars," helium continued.

The determination puts Biden thousands of cases up of each different presidents who person issued acts of clemency during their terms.

"With this action, I person present issued much idiosyncratic pardons and commutations than immoderate president successful U.S. history," Biden said.

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While granting clemency is not uncommon for a president, Biden has travel nether bipartisan occurrence for who helium has decided to pardon oregon commute sentences for. 

At the extremity of December, helium chose to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men connected national decease enactment – helping them flight execution and sending them to situation for beingness without parole instead.

He was besides criticized for pardoning his son, Hunter, of each crimes helium "has committed oregon whitethorn person committed" against U.S. instrumentality from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024. Hunter was convicted past twelvemonth of weapon and taxation crimes successful 2 abstracted national cases.

Biden besides boasted astir completing the "largest single-day assistance of clemency" connected Dec. 12 erstwhile helium commuted sentences for 1,500 radical and pardoned 39 others, astir of whom were already serving clip successful location confinement due to the fact that of decisions made during the COVID-19 era.

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The president added that helium is "proud of [his] grounds connected clemency" and said helium volition "continue to reappraisal further commutations and pardons" up of his last afloat time successful bureau connected Jan. 19.

There are 1,947 radical awaiting to beryllium pardoned erstwhile they implicit their condemnation and astir 6,625 cases awaiting commutation aft Friday's decision, according to Jan. 13 statistics from the Department of Justice.