Mandela Barnes was the only Democrat who split from the governor’s executive order allowing commutations for murder convictions.

Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month restoring the commutation process in Wisconsin, opening a window to ...

Wisconsin prisoners will be able to apply to have their sentences commuted. Here’s where they and their families can learn more.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up on barbed wire outside a possible prison or jail facility Credit: Richard Theis/EyeEm/Getty In Wisconsin, the last time ...

President Barack Obama made a commitment to use his clemency authority through the remainder of his time in office, and on Thursday he honored that commitment by granting another 98 commutations.

President Joe Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of more than 2,000 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, cementing his legacy as the president who has issued the most individual ...

Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday, Nov. 10, announced a sweeping new round of clemency actions, granting 29 pardons and 19 commutations to people serving or having served prison sentences across New Jersey — ...

Mandela Barnes was the only Democrat who split from the governor’s executive order allowing commutations for murder ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...

Among those granted clemency was Brenda Thompson, who was pardoned for a series of drug and property crimes connected to substance use between 2000 and 2006. — NJ Office of the Governor Gov. Phil ...