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According to Business Insider[1], just 149 people. [1]https://www.businessinsider.com/bidens-marijuana-pardons-wont-free-many-currently-in-federal-prison-2022-

• rippercushions 4y ago
  149 people in jail right now. But thousands more will have their records wiped clean.
• dragonwriter 4y ago
  According to the government, 0 people in prison, but there are many with convictions on their records that the pardons will address. The burden of a conviction extends beyond incarceration. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminalization-white-house-joe-biden https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminal...
  • ch4s3 4y ago
    It’s interesting that different sources have different counts. I wonder how sure they are, and how good the records are. Hopefully some people have some measure of their lives restored.
    • dragonwriter 4y ago
      > It’s interesting that different sources have different counts. 0 is the government’s current count of people who are in federal prison now solely on a federal simple possession charge. 149 is, per the source cited upthread, the number for Fiscal Year 2021 (not clear from the B.I. article if it is at some point in the fiscal year are total in prison at any point over the fiscal year), and the source indicates that’s been rapidly declining; also, Biden issued 75 commutations and 3 pardons in April this year for nonviolent drug offenses, which may be part of the reason that the number of prisoners on simple marijuana possession charges alone in federal prison now is 0.
      • ch4s3 4y ago
        That makes a lot more sense.