[PRESS RELEASE] – WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2025 – “As of late, I’m commuting the sentences of just about 2,500 folks convicted of nonviolent drug offenses who’re serving disproportionately lengthy sentences in comparison to the sentences they might obtain nowadays underneath present regulation, coverage, and follow. With this motion, I’ve now issued extra person pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. historical past.
“As of late’s clemency motion supplies reduction for those who gained long sentences in accordance with discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, in addition to out of date sentencing improvements for drug crimes. As Congress known in the course of the Honest Sentencing Act and the First Step Act, it’s time that we equalize those sentencing disparities. This motion is the most important step towards righting ancient wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and offering deserving folks the chance to go back to their households and communities after spending a ways an excessive amount of time at the back of bars. I’m pleased with my file on clemency and can proceed to study further commutations and pardons.”
The complete listing of the ones incorporated on this newest commutation spherical can be to be had nowadays, on Jan. 17.
