More than 600 religious leaders are asking President Clinton to commute the sentences of low-level, nonviolent federal drug offenders during his final weeks in office.
The clergy members, calling themselves the Coalition for Jubilee Clemency, delivered the letter to the White House last month but have not yet received a response. Clinton's own pastor, the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, was one of the signers.
The letter asks Clinton to grant clemency to and release on supervised parole federal prisoners who have served at least five years for low-level, nonviolent drug offenses.