Pardon applications are being carefully crafted with one man in mind: Donald Trump

President Donald Trump 's unconventional approach to clemency has spread hope among federal prisoners and formerly incarcerated people.

The White House and the Justice Department have received a wave of such requests.

The flurry, legal experts said, has been sparked by Trump ’s frequent and eyebrow-raising grants of clemencies.

Since Trump took office five months ago , his Justice Department has received more than 9,300 petitions.

Much of the president's clemency has gone to political allies, campaign donors and fraudsters.

The pardons that have drawn the most attention include one issued to a tax cheat whose mother raised millions of dollars for Republican causes.

Biden was sharply criticized for issuing preemptive pardons to protect lawmakers, former officials and his family members from what he described as a potentially vindictive administration.

Former DEA agent has been held in a Kentucky prison for nearly four years .

The president pardoned another former prisoner, P.G. Sittenfeld , a Democrat who sharply criticized Trump .

Trump ’s open-mindedness has sent “shock waves of hope through the prison walls for the thousands of people still serving extreme sentences, Barnett says.