clemency

Some lobbyists made massive sums attempting to secure clemency or pardons in the final months of Trump's presidency.

Sanders is running on a platform that includes sweeping reforms to the criminal legal system.

The film examines the death penalty from the perspective of those who have to carry out executions and the condemned.

The drug war led to an 800 percent increase in women's incarceration — and Sessions wants to reignite it.

Despite Trump's contempt for the clemency initiative, families of the incarcerated will continue their campaigns.

We must join across movements and great distances to demand Obama make freeing Leonard Peltier part of his legacy.

Obama has accelerated clemency to low-level drug offenders, but a study on pardons due in 2015 won't be released until the fall of 2017.

The former prosecutor of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier joins thousands calling for clemency saying it is “in the best interests of justice.”

Although 2016 often felt like a nail in humanity's coffin, there were many displays of fierce resilience.

Drug war prisoners are desperately hoping for commutations or amnesty in the closing weeks of Obama's presidency.