President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 convicted criminals — setting a new record for most ...

The president is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses in the biggest single-day act of clemency.

according to the Justice Department. The law imposed an automatic five-year sentence for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine, while 500 grams of powder cocaine carried the same penalty.

Kenyatta Defondrael McLaughlin, 45, of Dillon pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and ... to a release from the United States Department of Justice, an officer with the ...

Arellano, 33, was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 17, in a federal court in Chicago after he pleaded guilty last year to a federal drug charge.

In a final report on his investigation, special counsel David Weiss said President Biden's criticism "undermines the very ...