President Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 people, in the largest single-day act of clemency for any president in modern U.S. history. The commutations, announced in a statement Thursday, are for people who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to the commutations, Biden is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Prisons became fertile breeding grounds for infection during the pandemic and...