*Harold J. Krent*
**How Biden can make pardons a stamp on his legacy**

>The United States has placed more people behind bars than any other country in the world. The pardon authority vests in the president the august power to rectify past injustice. Obama focused principally on nonviolent drug offenders, an admirable step, but Biden can choose to deploy the pardon power more widely, whether to benefit those whose convictions were tainted by racism, non-violent offenders serving lengthy sentences, or those who committed crimes because of addiction.

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