President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of about 1,500 people released from prison and placed under house arrest during the coronavirus pandemic and pardoning 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes. This is the largest daily act of mercy in modern history. As for the hundreds of cases in which the outgoing president commuted sentences, they involved people who had been placed under house arrest during the Covid19 pandemic and were facing sentences that Biden deemed excessive. Prisons have been hotbeds for the spread of the virus, and some inmates have been released in part to stop the spread. At one point, one in five inmates had COVID-19, according to Associated Press data. It is worth noting that the next highest act of clemency in one day was done by Barack Obama, with 330, shortly before he left office in 2017. “America was built on the promise of possibility and […]
Source: News Beast
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