Clemency Project 2014 was hampered by a major problem not of its making. The lawyers best-equipped to handle these cases—public defenders and private criminal defense lawyers paid by the government to ...

More than a thousand lawyers at advocacy groups and in private and government service are participating in a first-of-its kind program to secure mass commutations for federal prisoners. More than a ...

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced 48 pardons and commutations as part of his clemency initiative at a press conference in Whig Hall on Monday. “[Whig-Clio] is an incredibly fitting venue for ...

Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday, Nov. 10, announced a sweeping new round of clemency actions, granting 29 pardons and 19 commutations to people serving or having served prison sentences across New Jersey — ...

President Obama announced that he was commuting the sentences of 61 federal drug offenders on Wednesday—even as thousands of inmates’ petitions seeking clemency remain outstanding. Almost all of the ...