By Christopher Zoukis Rather than slackening off as the Obama administration nears its final days, the clemency initiative announced in April 2014 for federal prisoners is picking up speed. From the Oct. 1 start of the current fiscal year until two days before Election Day, the president had issued 272 sentence commutations — nearly one-third of its […]

By Christopher Zoukis With two more batches of sentence commutations granted in October, President Obama now holds a couple of records in that area. By issuing commutations for 102 federal inmates on Oct. 6, followed by 98 more on Oct. 27, he set the record for commutations in a single year. His total for 2016 reached 688 […]

By Christopher Zoukis Time is growing short for the Obama administration to act on rules it proposed almost two years ago to revamp federal rules on child support. One significant part of the November 2014 proposal from the Office of Child Support Enforcement in the Department of Health and Human Services would redefine inmates’ child-support […]

By Chris Zoukis President Obama’s campaign to provide commutations of sentences of federal prisoners continues, with his fifth batch this year, and the second for the month, issued August 30. The most recent group of 111 commutations raised the president’s total to 673 during his time in office, with 325 coming just this August. That […]