Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month restoring the commutation process in Wisconsin, opening a window to ...

For the first time in decades, Wisconsin prisoners will be able to apply to have their sentences commuted, Gov. Tony Evers announced last week. Wisconsin Watch talked to three experts about how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up on barbed wire outside a possible prison or jail facility Credit: Richard Theis/EyeEm/Getty In Wisconsin, the last time ...

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama granted commutations for an additional 111 federal inmates, bringing the total number of grants offered up to 325 in the month of August alone—the largest number of ...

President Joe Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of more than 2,000 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, cementing his legacy as the president who has issued the most individual ...

Evers’ commutation process offers hope to some lifers, but excludes sex offenses and recent violence behind bars.

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 — ...

In an unprecedented escalation of state-sanctioned vengeance, the Trump administration has launched a systematic campaign to dismantle the humanitarian protections afforded to 37 federal prisoners ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...

Among those granted clemency was Brenda Thompson, who was pardoned for a series of drug and property crimes connected to substance use between 2000 and 2006. — NJ Office of the Governor Gov. Phil ...