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.

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.

Former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan had been sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison for sending children to jail while receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks.

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

Michael Conahan was sentenced to 17½ years in the judicial scandal, which the FBI described as the “worst in Pennsylvania’s history.”

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.