Outgoing President Joe Biden granted 39 pardons and commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 federal offenders serving the remainder of their sentences on home confinement today.
The orders came under intense pressure from a coalition of civil rights, criminal justice, and religious groups urging Biden to use his clemency power to grant relief to several groups of federal offenders, such as death row inmates and nonviolent drug offenders. Biden recently issued a broad pardon to his son, Hunter, leading many groups to publicly complain that he wasn't extending mercy to others.
