There’s a name rumbling through prisons around the nation: Jared Kushner. Kushner’s father served time in federal prison, and some incarcerated people hope that experience gives President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser a better understanding of their plight ― and could lead him to look favorably on their requests for clemency. The idea that Kushner might have some special interest in freeing prisoners has so pervaded the nation’s federal prisons that some inmates have sent copies of their clemency applications directly to his Office of American Innovation in the White House. A few inmates have even pinned news clips of Kushner on their cell walls. Jared Kushner, cellblock pinup, is just one of the surprising results of Trump’s unconventional approach to granting clemency. The president has been bypassing the Office of the Pardon Attorney at the Department of Justice, which has vetted clemency applications under previous presidents, and has acted more impulsively, issuing high-profile clemencies in cases that grab his attention. So inmates and their advocates have adapted their tactics to fit the current administration. Here’s a guide to how to win a pardon under Trump. Send Your Application To Jared Kushner

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Rather than filing requests only through the Justice Department, some advocates have scrambled to find back doors into the White House, floating the names of petitioners to celebrities, pundits, lawyers or anyone else who might care about the issue and has access to the president. Kushner is one of them. He’s an obvious target for desperate inmates looking for some semblance of hope. He has firsthand exposure to the federal prison system. He’s an advocate for prison reform and pushed for the First Step Act, a sweeping measure that helps federal inmates work toward early release that the president signed into law last year. And he has a close personal relationship with the president. But back-channel operations can be fraught. People close to the White House often claim to peddle influence but may not be as powerful as they say. So some inmates and their lawyers have sought out other avenues to reach the president ― with more success. Get Kim Kardashian West’s Attention

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The president watches four to eight hours of cable news each day, mostly Fox News. And most of Trump’s pardons and commutations have gone to people whose cases were featured on his favorite channel. Just this week, the president granted a full pardon to former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna. Behenna was convicted by a military court in 2009 and served five years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi man who had been arrested on suspicion that he was an al-Qaeda member who had knowledge of a recent roadside bombing that had killed two American soldiers. Behenna, like some other disgraced military personnel, received favorable coverage on “Fox & Friends” last year, reportedly one of the president’s favorite shows. Last year, Trump pardoned and commuted the sentences of Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, a father-son team convicted in 2012 on two counts of arson on federal land whose cause had been championed by right-wing militias and featured on Fox News. Trump has issued pardons as well for former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, former George W. Bush administration official Scooter Libby and right-wing media provocateur Dinesh D’Souza. The cases of all three men were featured on Fox News. He also pardoned Kristian Saucier, a Navy sailor convicted of unlawful possession of national defense information who took his case to Fox News. “The most honest answer I can give to those who ask me how to get a pardon from this president is this: Take your case to the media, to Fox News,” said Jack Wilenchik, an attorney in Arizona who represented Arpaio during his contempt-of-court case and ultimately his pardon, the first of Trump’s presidency. Wilenchik spoke to various news outlets about Arpaio’s case before Trump granted the pardon, hoping his words would reach the president. His plan worked. Wilenchik explained that his office had no direct contact with the president or his counsel and had not submitted a formal application at the pardon attorney’s office before Arpaio was pardoned. The media angle worked far better for Arpaio than back channels did. Wilenchik thought someone with White House access had been directly communicating with Trump about a potential pardon for Arpaio. But when the White House Counsel’s Office called to inform him that the pardon was signed, he said, they told him they had no knowledge of anyone at the White House ever having made contact with Arpaio. Wilenchik believes that Trump had become personally interested in Arpaio’s case and was closely following it after seeing the coverage on television. “The president was raising the issues we brought up at a rally in Arizona, at an appearance the president had on ‘Fox & Friends’ ― we had never communicated those ideas to him directly, but they were things I’d been quoted as saying in an Associated Press article that Fox News had picked up on,” Wilenchik said. “So I think he probably studied the case after seeing it in the news.” Don’t Expect Much From The Pardon Attorney’s Office

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