Over 25,000 People in Prison Await Decisions on Their Clemency Applications

Across the U.S., people in prison are hoping for compassion — and clemency — allowing them to rejoin their loved ones.

Sixty-three-year-old Lazara Ordaz has spent the past 24 years behind bars on a 35-year federal prison sentence for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. “I have missed over two decades of births, birthdays, Thanksgivings and Christmases which I will never get back,” Ordaz told Truthout. In 2020, as COVID-19 ripped through prisons, Ordaz applied for home confinement under the CARES Act.

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