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Biden grants clemency to 2,500 people, most ever in a day

AFP | Berlin

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President Joe Biden yesterday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses in what the White House called the largest single-day act of clemency in US history.

Those whose sentences were commuted were serving “disproportionately long sentences” compared to what they would receive today, Biden said in a statement.