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A Florida man believed to be America’s longest serving inmate for nonviolent marijuana crimes has been released from prison after serving 31 years of his 90-year sentence. Richard DeLisi on ...
Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 federal offenders who had been serving the remainder of their sentences on home confinement after being released from prison during COVID-19.
Decarceration includes overlapping reformist and abolitionist strategies, from "front door" options such as sentencing reform, decriminalization, diversion and mental health treatment to "back door" approaches, exemplified by parole reform and early release into re-entry programs, [5] amnesty for inmates convicted of non-violent offenses and imposition of prison capacity limits. [6]
George "Cowboy" Martorano (born 1950) was the longest-serving, first-time, non-violent offender in the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the time of his release. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1984 on drug charges. [1] Martorano was released in October 2015 after serving over 32 years.
On December 12, 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and pardoned another 39 convicted of non-violent offenses [102] who had been released from prison to home incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history". [103]
Thousands of nonviolent federal prisoners eligible for early release under a promising Trump-era law remain locked up nearly four years later due to inadequate implementation, prisoner advocacy ...
The CAN-DO Foundation (Clemency for All Nonviolent Drug Offenders) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation that fights for the release of nonviolent drug offenders from prison. . The foundation educates the public about conspiracy law and advocates for law refo
Released after just under 30 years in prison for ... significant alternative to the system of group homes contracted by the state to support the reentry of 35,000 to 40,000 inmates released from ...