Obama Commutes Sentences of 95 Prisoners and Pardons Two mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/19/us/politics/obama-commutes-sentences-of-95-prisoners-and-pardons-two.html?_r=0&referer= Stephen Crowley / The New York Times WASHINGTON - President Obama announced on Friday that he had commuted the sentences of 95 federal prisoners and granted two pardons, White House officials said, building on his push to re-orient the nation's criminal justice system with a year-end stroke of his pen. https://www.instagram.com/p/_ceSqMsfNd/