“More than 11,430 federal prisoners, many of them nonviolent offenders serving life sentences, have commutation petitions pending at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, or OPA.  Another 2,393 applications for presidential pardons, which are generally issued after someone completes a sentence, are also pending. Both numbers mark record highs for a … Continue reading How Courts Could Ease The White House’s Clemency Backlog