President Biden has commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39, marking the largest single-day clemency measure in modern history, the White House announced Thursday morning.
Sentences were commuted for inmates placed in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic who have “successfully reintegrated into their families and communities,” the announcement said.
President Biden commuted 1,500 prison sentences and pardoned 39 others on Thursday in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern American history, the White House said. (Samuel Corum/Girl/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The 39 pardoned individuals were convicted of non-violent crimes.
“The President has issued more sentence reductions at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms,” the White House said.
The move comes as the president faces a two-pronged investigation for pardoning his son, Hunter, on gun and tax crimes.
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