President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he would commute roughly 1,500 sentences of people who served their sentence on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to more than three dozen pardons.

Biden said the commutations, which was the most ever offered in a single day, to the sentences went to people who had spent at least a year serving their sentence at home under the CARES Act during the pandemic, arguing that they “have shown that they deserve a second chance.”