Biden commutes 2,500 crack sentences — as pot offenders wait to see if he will fulfill promise to free them | Reporter Replay

January 17, 2025 | 5:06pm

President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses — as roughly the same number of marijuana prisoners await word on whether he will honor his campaign pledge to free them. The White House didn’t say whether the latest clemency recipients would be released immediately or if their sentences would merely be shortened — as was the case with many similar grants under former President Barack Obama.