WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Bringing the holiday spirit to some people who surely did not expect it, President Barack Obama commuted or pardoned 231 people currently serving prison sentences -- the largest single-day act of clemency in the history of the presidency.
Obama commuted 153 sentences and pardoned another 78 federal prisoners who have made the most of their time in jail, and who were there mostly with convictions related to the so-called War on Drugs.