Office of the Pardon Attorney

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

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Clemency Case Status Lookup Feature

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

1. August 25, 2017 - 1 pardon granted
2. December 20, 2017 - 1 commutation granted
3. March 9, 2018 - 1 pardon granted
4. April 13, 2018 - 1 pardon granted
5. April 16, 2018 - 98 commutations denied & 82 pardons denied
6. May 24, 2018 - 1 posthumous pardon granted
7. May 31, 2018 - 1 pardon granted
8. June 6, 2018 - 1 commutation granted
9. July 10, 2018 - 2 commutations and 2 pardons granted
10. May 6, 2019 - 1 pardon granted
11. May 15, 2019 - 2 pardons granted
12. July 29, 2019 - 5 pardons and 2 commutations granted
13. October 10, 2019 - 1 posthumous pardon granted
14. November 15, 2019 - 2 pardons granted
15. February 18, 2020 - 4 commutations and 7 pardons granted
16. July 10, 2020 - 1 commutation granted
17. August 18, 2020 - 1 posthumous pardon granted
18. August 25, 2020 - 1 pardon granted
19. August 28, 2020 - 1 pardon granted
20. October 21, 2020 - 5 commutations granted
21. November 25, 2020 - 1 pardon granted
22. December 22, 2020 - 15 pardons granted and 5 commutations granted
23. December 23, 2020 - 26 pardons (including 1 posthumous) granted and 3 commutation granted

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.