It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Dozens of people with ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol gathered outside the detention facility in Washington to celebrate Trump’s pardons of those convicted of crimes that day.
He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.
The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, will be the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by a U.S. president.
The Iraqi prisoner had sued the Biden administration, saying he would be at risk for abuse at a prison in his homeland.
Just 15 men remain at the prison, down from hundreds when it opened 23 years ago. But the costly operation could go on for years.
The men said that, by reducing their sentences to life in prison, President Biden’s act of clemency could hurt their appeals.
A court filing said the prisoner was at risk for abuse and might not be able to get adequate health care if transferred.
The facility in Fulton County, Georgia, has long had problems with assaults, drugs and pests.