Republicans are requesting that Gov. Evers suspend his plan to offer commutations, which reduce or a modify criminal ...

Some say people can change after serving time in prison. But critics question whether people convicted of serious violent crimes should ever be released early.

More than three-dozen Wisconsin lawmakers want Gov. Tony Evers to pause his plan to cut sentences short for some criminals in ...

Colorado elections clerk set to be released from prison Monday based on her sentence commutation ...

As the limits on Gov. Jared Polis’s term in office approach, on May 15, he announced the pardon of 35 and sentence ...

Former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from prison Monday after ...

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and ...