Month: January 2025

Advocating for a Second Chance

Advocating for a Second Chance

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Dear Friends, In 2024, Texas Defender Service launched our Pro Bono Parole Program, which connects deserving candidates seeking parole with pro bono attorneys who can advocate for their release home.  In just a few months, four of our clients have already been granted parole. One of them is Christopher, a father of four who had been […]

President Biden’s Historic Commutations

President Biden’s Historic Commutations

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Dear Friends, Today, President Biden has taken the historic step of commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people serving long prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever by a U.S. president. This act recognizes the importance of second chances and acknowledges the racial inequalities caused by extreme sentences in the […]