Clemency Project 2014 receives more than 20,000 prisoner surveys to review

 Clemency Project 2014 recenly announced that more than 20,000 federal prisoners have returned surveys seeking pro bono representation in the clemency process. Over the course of the next 30 days, the Project will begin to forward survey responses to trained lawyers who will help the Project assess whether they meet the Justice Department’s clemency criteria and, if so, assist them in filing clemency petitions.

The project currently has more than 1,000 attorneys who have volunteered to participate. Twenty large law firms have each agreed to represent at least ten or more eligible prisoners, and dozens more have expressed interest.
For candidates to be eligible for clemency under this initiative, they must be:
• serving a federal sentence;
• serving a sentence that, if imposed today, would be substantially shorter;
• have a non-violent history with no significant ties to organized crime, gangs or cartels;
• have served at least 10 years;
• have no significant prior convictions; and
• have demonstrated good prisoner conduct. 

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