President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.

Outgoing president’s announcement comes just weeks after he pardoned son Hunter following drug addiction battle

President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 convicted criminals — setting a new record for most individual pardons and commutations ever issued by a president.

The special counsel who brought criminal charges against Hunter Biden says the probes were “the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics.”

Democratic lawmakers had urged President Biden to use his clemency powers to address disparities in sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine.

With Friday's (January 17) move, Biden has granted more individual pardons and commutations than any previous president.

The clemency decision will benefit federal prisoners convicted of crack cocaine-related crimes ... and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter Biden, who was convicted last year of 12 tax and ...

“But he did it anyway, because he wanted to own a gun, even though he was actively using crack cocaine,” Weiss wrote.Hunter Biden subsequently entered a surprise guilty plea last September to ...

The president is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses in the biggest single-day act of clemency.

"With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history," President Joe Biden wrote in his announcement Friday.

With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,' Biden noted in a statement.

President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders whose sentences were longer than they’d receive under current standards, the White House said in a statement on Friday.