A Wilmington man is the fourth Delaware federal prisoner to have their sentence commuted by President Obama over the past year.
A northern Ohio judge sentenced Angel Cardona to nearly 18 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 2003, but he’ll be released early next year.
That’s because Cardona was one of 102 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses whose sentences were shortened by President Obama Thursday.
Since taking office, Obama has commuted the sentences of about 775 offenders, the bulk of them coming over the past year for drug offenses he says are clogging federal prisons.
That’s more commutations than the past 11 presidents combined.
Since July 2015, three other Delawareans have received presidential clemency, and two have already been released.
Another is scheduled for release next August if he immediately enrolls in a drug treatment program.
