Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result ...

A man convicted of transporting large quantities of methamphetamine from California to Guam in the early and mid-1990s “has ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...

Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang in Chicago. Hoover, now 74, was serving six life sentences in a federal ...

From left: Lt. Gov. Austin Davis (Commonwealth Media Services); Gail Stallworth (courtesy of Cornelius Harp); then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a Board of Pardons meeting (via YouTube). Gail ...

A repeat offender whose federal prison sentence was commuted by autopen during the final days of the Biden administration was ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking co-conspirator, is planning to apply for a commutation of her federal prison sentence, which is set to run through 2037, according to documents ...

Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, who was convicted in a federal bribery case, has requested his sentence be commuted. If his petition is granted, that would allow him to be released from prison sooner.

M y neighbor, Jean Frantz, 52, has been in prison since he was 20 years old. Several of his teenage years were spent locked ...

Colorado’s Governor has never granted a commutation to an inmate like Tina Peters, according to a 9NEWS analysis of the Governor’s prior actions ...

Bolden, who became the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on the security detail for a U.S. president, was among 78 people granted pardons or commutations of their sentences on April 26, 2022, ...