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On Wednesday, Dec. 20, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of one man from Bertie County, and granted pardons for four others, including one man from Perquimans County.

All five were 22 or younger, two just 16, when they committed their offenses. Read what Cooper had to say.

A pardon from Wisconsin´s governor can be a tremendous boon for people who have committed crimes in the state, served their sentences, and then spent considerable time in communities without recent offenses. Learn how lawyers can help.

A pardon from Wisconsin´s governor can be a tremendous boon for people who have committed crimes in the state, served their sentences, and then spent considerable time in communities without recent offenses. Learn how lawyers can help.

Join Berner and Last Prisoner Project's fight to free Robert Deals from unjust imprisonment. Support #FreeRobertDeals for a just cannabis law reform.

In the early ’70s, marijuana was at the crux of becoming an emblem for social rebellion — an association that would mutate into a political...

Floridians, take notice. Your right to a representative government is being stolen away. Recent headlines document angry eruptions among an audience of people who show up to meetings ready to tell their leaders what they think — only to be muzzled by time limits that shut down some would-be participants before they could utter a single word. More often, however, the exclusion is happening ...

Floridians, take notice. Your right to a representative government is being stolen away. Recent headlines document angry eruptions among an audience of people who show up to meetings ready to tell their leaders what they think — only to be muzzled by time limits that shut down some would-be participants before they could utter a single word. More often, however, the exclusion is happening ...

Jacob Wideman's attorneys said his constitutional rights were violated. Wideman served 30 years in prison and his parole was revoked just months after his release.

Thirty-three members of Congress are asking President Joe Biden to grant clemency to a Native American leader convicted of shooting and killing two FBI agents. Rep. Raúl Grijalva and 32 other members of Congress sent Biden a letter asking him to grant executive clemency to incarcerated Native American leader Leonard Peltier, citing what they said were the "prosecutorial misconduct" and "constitutional violations" that took place during Peltier's trial.