Biden on Tuesday granted clemency to 78 people on Tuesday, using his executive authority to grant three pardons and 75 commutations.
Most of the pardons and commutations went to people in prison for drug crimes, including possession and distribution of drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, marijuana, according to the“America is a nation of laws and second chances, redemption, and rehabilitation,” Biden wrote in aBiden pardoned three people; former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden, 87 who wasto prison for bribery, Betty Jo Bogans, 51, sentenced for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and Dexter Jackson, 52, for...
The president expressed the need for criminal justice reform, freeing those who were serving long sentences for non-violent drug offensives.
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