President Biden early Thursday announced that he is pardoning 39 people and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, setting a new daily record for clemency with a focus on those who were under home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The White House unveiled a list of names of the 39 individuals who President Joe Biden pardoned, as well as a list of the nearly 1,500 individuals whose sentences he commuted, on Thursday.

President Joe Biden Thursday commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and granted 39 pardons. The White House called it the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history." Those whose sentences were commuted had been released from prison to home confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic.