Some sentences reproach without a single accusatory word. “The captain was sober today” impugns by implication. The officer who logs this superfluous statement damns the captain further with the ...

Gaylord Salters, who was in prison for 20 years before having his sentence modified, testifies at a public hearing at the Capitol on Monday, March 17, 2025. Credit: Emilia Otte / CT Mirror Anthony ...

The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, is the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by a U.S. president. By Erica L.

President Biden's recent move to commute the sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row has been met with praise by some and criticism by others, who say it's unclear why the president made ...

President Biden announced on Friday that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes who are serving far longer sentences than they would receive today.