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After 25 years, Gov. Evers announces commutations will be available in Wisconsin

Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday that he had signed two executive orders to begin offering commutations, a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant cle...

Commutations are back. Here’s what incarcerated people and their loved ones should know.

How Evers' plan to issue commutations works

Gov. Tony Evers is creating an advisory panel to recommend commutations, a ‘form of executive clemency that reduces an individual’s punishment — most often by shortening a prison s...

Commutations in Wisconsin: A Rare Opportunity for Relief

Gov. Tony Evers announced the creation of an executive commutation process, the first opportunity in 25 years for prisoners in Wisconsin. Evan McCarthy reviews what we know about t...

Evers’ commutation orders trigger sense of urgency for people in prison, advocates 

Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month that make the commutation of prison sentences available again in Wisconsin. Executive Order 287, creating the Governor’s Comm...

Gov. Evers: Signs executive orders restoring commutations process in Wisconsin

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today signed two executive orders to reinstate Wisconsin’s process for issuing commutations, including creating a new Commutation Advisory Board. The gove...

Jared Polis Did the Right Thing

On Friday afternoon, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued 35 pardons. He also commuted the sentences of nine prisoners, allowing them to be released years before they otherwise would b...

Examining the strength of Trump's presidential pardoning power

CBS News has exclusively learned that Senate and House Democrats are investigating whether President Trump issued pardons and commutations as part of what is described as a "pay-to...

Tony Evers revived commutations, but what will Wisconsin’s next governor do?

Former Judges Offer No Easy Answers on Presidential Pardons

“What has happened with the pardon under this administration, it's just shocking, said former U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge Thomas Griffith, who was app...

Colorado Governor Grants Clemency to Tina Peters

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) “will reduce Tina Peters’ sentence by half, he confirmed Friday, appearing to bend to demands from President Donald Trump — while ignoring the pleas o...

Evers restores prison commutation process in Wisconsin

Gov. Tony Evers restores Wisconsin’s prison commutation process after 30 years, creating a review board and new path for youth offenders. The post Evers restores prison commutation...

Gov. Laura Kelly issues pardon in 1993 Lyon County aggravated battery case

Gov. Laura Kelly has exhibited mercy in the form of pardons and sentence commutations twice as frequently as the state's four previous governors combined.

Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff

“President Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Said Trump, in a recent meeting: “I’ll...

Jared Polis' Controversial Commutation of Tina Peters' Prison Sentence Upholds Freedom of Speech

Colorado's governor agreed with a state appeals court that the former Mesa County clerk had been punished for her wacky beliefs about the 2020 election as well as her illegal condu...

Donald Trump’s Pardon Economy

For some wealthy offenders, clemency is just a golf game—or a million-dollar plate at Mar-a-Lago—away.

Steven Walters: How Evers plan to issue commutations works

Evers’ commutation process offers hope to some lifers, but excludes sex offenses and recent violence behind bars.

Understanding Mercy in the Trump Era

In ranking the most famous pardons of all time, with apologies to President Richard Nixon, I put one above all others: the one given to the Good Thief by Christ on the Cross.

Colorado governor commutes Trump ally Tina Peters' prison sentence

Gov. Jared Polis announced he is commuting the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was facing more than eight years in state prison for allowing unauthorized acce...

Opinion: After decades in prison, who deserves a chance at clemency?

Republican lawmakers ask for pause in Evers’ commutation plans

(The Center Square) – More than three-dozen Wisconsin lawmakers want Gov. Tony Evers to pause his plan to cut sentences short for some criminals in the state. Rep...

Republican legislators ask Evers to pause commutations, make changes to the process

State Rep. Jim Piwowarczyk (R-Hubertus) and 39 other Republican legislators (33 from the Assembly and 6 from the Senate) sent a letter to Gov. Tony Evers Tuesday requesting that he...

How to Get a Pardon in Trump’s Washington

Fast-talking lawyers and lobbyists promise to get white-collar criminals out of jail — for a fee.

Colorado Gov. Commutes Sentence of Former County Clerk Sentenced to Jail for Election Tampering

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former clerk for the state's Mesa County, after she was sentenced to serve nine years in prison in October 202...