Office of the Pardon Attorney

Clemency Case Status Lookup Feature

The Office of the Pardon Attorney (PARDON) modified operations during COVID-19

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Commutation (reduction) of Sentence - Information and Instructions 

Commutation (reduction) of Sentence -  Petition

Pardon after Completion of Sentence - Information and Instructions

Pardon after Completion of Sentence - Petition

Please Note: This office will delete emails that contain JPG files, weblinks or urls, downloadable files from file sharing platforms such as GoogleDrive and DropBox, zipped files, and images of files taken on a smart phone. In order to ensure the safety of our electronic filing system, we also will not access files in unknown file formats, so if you have sent an email with any or all of the above issues, your email has been deleted without being reviewed. Please resubmit your transmission as a consolidated PDF attachment. If the file is too voluminous to transmit in one email, you may break it up in multiple email transmissions or send it by U.S. Postal Service.  We accept physical mail at: Office of the Pardon Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20530.  Sending mail to our physical address at 145 N Street NE, Washington, DC 20530 is also allowed, but please be aware that all physical mail is rerouted to DOJ headquarters so that it can be scanned for toxins and other harmful elements prior to being handled by our staff.

Final clemency decisions by President Joseph R. Biden will be listed here as soon as they become available with more detailed information about offense, district, sentence, and a downloadable copy of the presidential warrant available on our Clemency Recipients page.

The Office of the Pardon Attorney (PARDON) welcomes correspondence, preferably by email, regarding clemency matters.  PARDON is unable to respond to every item of correspondence that is submitted to this office. However, every submission is given appropriate attention, and if it relates to a pending application for clemency, it is added to that clemency casefile. If upon further review of your correspondence, we require additional information or a further discussion, we will be sure to contact the writer.  If your correspondence either doesn't require a response or we have recently responded to a similar inquiry from a writer, we will not reiterate the same information twice. Please read the full notice here.