Among those whose sentences were commuted was Rebecca Parrett, an Arizona woman who now hopes to travel to meet her great-grandchildren for the first time.

President Joe Biden's mass clemency has faced backlash as it included a judge in the infamous "kids-for-cash" scandal. And a new report Friday evening said the White House did so without considering the specifics of the case.

Victims of major public corruption cases in Pennsylvania and Illinois are angry that President Joe Biden granted clemency this week to the two convicted officials.

President Joe Biden granted clemency to three Chinese nationals last month as a part of an agreement to secure the release of three Americans wrongfully held by Beijing, according to a National Security Council spokesperson.

One clemency recipient got paid to send kids to prison, the other stole a staggering amount of money from her community

Some victims of the “kids-for-cash” scandal have publicly criticized Biden in the wake of Conahan’s commutation. Amanda Lorah, who was one of the juveniles wrongly imprisoned in the scheme, told a local television station that the move amounted to “a big slap in the face for us once again.”

A judge who helped orchestrate a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks was among the 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden this week

President Biden has stirred controversy after he commuted the sentence of a corrupt judge who was jailed for more than 17 years after he was caught taking kickbacks for sending juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.

Michael Conahan was jailed in 2011 for detaining thousands of children in juvenile detention centers in exchange for kickbacks.