WASHINGTON — President Obama commuted the sentences of 61 prisoners on Wednesday, part of an effort to more aggressively use the commutation power and call for changes to sentencing laws, particularly ...

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama granted 330 commutations, the White House announced Thursday, the most commutations given in a single day by a US president. The announcement comes within 24 hours of ...

President Barack Obama says he shortened the sentences of more than 200 federal inmates this week to help cut the cycle of poverty and put families back together. Almost all the 214 prisoners were ...

President Barack Obama speaks during his final presidential news conference, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, on Jan. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Last week, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a ...

President Barack Obama granted clemency to 231 more prisoners Monday, with 153 commutations of sentences and 78 pardons, the most individual acts of clemency granted in the same day, according to the ...

Wednesday’s commutations by President Obama, which brings his total number to 562, represent the most granted by a president in a single day since at least 1900, according to the White House blog.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama cut short on Tuesday the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Obama has long ...

While Obama may be stuck riding out the remainder of his presidency as a lame duck, there are still some things within his power. Obama exercised that power today by granting an unprecedented number ...