California has adopted a new process that could eventually allow some people serving extremely long prison sentences to receive a review for possible sentence commutation or resentencing. The rules ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, is catching a lot of flak for granting clemency to former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a conspiracy theorist who was sentenced to nearly nine years in jail and ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a ...

A convicted New York City drug kingpin whose sentence was commuted by President Trump in 2021 was hit with a new 27-month sentence Monday for a new wave of crimes — including sexually abusing his live ...

R. Kelly is seeking commutation of his combined 31-year-prison sentence for racketeering, sex trafficking, child pornography and enticement.

A South Dakota man who was recently charged in connection with the death of his 14-year-old niece previously had a life prison sentence commuted by then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Mark Milk, 51, ...

Because there is no guarantee that the next president--whether a Democrat of a Republican--will continue the new policy of commuting sentences for nonviolent offenders, inmates who seek a commutation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as predictably, Trump's detractors were incensed. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, warned that the ...