NACDL News: President Obama Announces Third Set of Clemency Grants in Two Months

In his third set of clemency grants in just over two months, on June 3, 2016, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 42 prisoners, 25 of whom were applicants whose petitions were supported by Clemency Project 2014. Of the 25 petitions that came through the Project, 14 of the prisoners were serving life sentences.