Augusta, Georgia Pardon Application: Proof of Completed Anger Management the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles Can Verify
Most Georgia pardon files contain a certificate of something. Very few contain a document a Board member can quote. The difference is the reason NJAMG built Positive Momentum Anger Management: eight to sixteen private sessions with a retired criminal lawyer and certified anger management clinician, an assessment-based curriculum, and a two-to-five-page Completion Letter written the way a lawyer writes for a decision-maker — voluntary enrollment, structure, each session by date, the applicant’s engagement, and the instructor’s own assessment of the change. For a Augusta conviction, this page explains the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles’s process and where that letter goes in it.
Georgia Pardon — Augusta Convictions — Quick Answer
If you only read this box: The Georgia Board received 845 pardon applications in FY2024 and granted 346 pardons — with no hearings, on the written file alone. For a Augusta conviction, the file has to prove the conduct behind the conviction has been addressed — not just that time has passed. NJAMG’s Positive Momentum Anger Management produces the proof: an assessment, a customized curriculum, eight to sixteen private live video sessions with a retired criminal defense lawyer and certified anger management clinician, a Certificate of Completion, and a lawyer-written Completion Letter of two to five pages addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles in Atlanta. From $750. Direct pay. Not a guarantee of a pardon — the Board decides. Text ENROLL GA to 201-205-3201.
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Augusta, GA — Richmond County convictions
Certified recordRichmond County Superior and State Courts — the clerk provides the certified disposition and sentencing documents the Board requires; incident reports come from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office or the arresting agency.Where the pardon is decidedGeorgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE, Suite 430, Atlanta, GA 30334 · (404) 656-4661. No hearing — five Board members review the written file independently in Atlanta and a majority vote decides.How to applyElectronic pardon application through the Board’s e-Pardon portal (portalapps.pap.state.ga.us); no fee; no attorney required; a clemency investigator interviews every applicant.EligibilityAll sentences — including probation and parole — completed at least five years before applying; a law-abiding life during those five years; no pending charges; all fines and restitution paid. Ten years, plus evaluations, for registry sex offenses. Federal convictions cannot be pardoned by the state Board.Areas servedSummerville, Harrisburg, Downtown Augusta, West Augusta, South Augusta, Martinez, Evans, Grovetown, Hephzibah, North Augusta
NJAMG is a private program and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, State Board of Pardons and Paroles, or any court. NJAMG is psychoeducational and is not psychotherapy or medical or mental health treatment, does not accept insurance, does not give legal advice, and cannot guarantee the outcome of any pardon application; the Board has full discretion to grant or deny. Eligibility rules, procedures, and statistics are drawn from the Board’s published rules, forms, and FAQs and from public sources as of September 2026 and may change.
Pardon Applications From Augusta — Where the File Starts
Augusta–Richmond County is a consolidated government, so an Augusta conviction was entered at the Richmond County Superior or State Court at the Augusta Judicial Center and the incident report comes from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office; Columbia County cases from Martinez, Evans, and Grovetown come from the Columbia County courts and sheriff in Evans. Fort Eisenhower’s presence means many Augusta pardon applicants are soldiers, veterans, and contractors whose clearances and careers turn on the file.
Georgia’s no-hearing process suits a working applicant — nothing to travel to Atlanta for — but it makes the written record everything. For applicants from Summerville, Harrisburg, South Augusta, and across the river in North Augusta, NJAMG’s Positive Momentum program produces the document a file-review Board can rely on: a Certificate of Completion with a verification number and a two-to-five-page Completion Letter by a retired criminal defense lawyer and certified anger management clinician, addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
What the Board Weighs — and Where the Completion Letter Lands
Rehabilitation
The factor every pardon board lists and the only one the applicant can still build. For a Augusta conviction it is built with documents: employment, education, service, and a completed program described specifically enough for the Board to rely on.
The offense and its record
Fixed. The Board has the conviction and the incident report before it reads anything from you; your account should match them. Minimizing is the most common self-inflicted denial.
Conduct since
The criminal history since the sentence, verified by the Georgia investigation. Clean years are the floor of a strong file, not the ceiling.
Victim and official input
Georgia’s process has no hearing, but the clemency investigator sees the incident report for a Augusta conviction and the Board knows a family violence pardon is decided with no victim in the room. The file has to carry the counterweight on its own.
References and reputation
The Board says everything you provide about a Augusta conviction ‘must be verified,’ and a clemency investigator interviews every applicant; references and employers are contacted. The Board’s stated test is a ‘good reputation in the community.’
Why the conduct will not recur
The question under all the others. For an anger-related conviction it is answered by a documented mechanism of change — an assessment, a curriculum, dated sessions — not by a promise.
State Board of Pardons and Paroles FY2024 Annual Report; Board pardon FAQs; O.C.G.A. § 35-3-37(j)(7).
Eligibility in Georgia: Before the File
Eligibility checklist — Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles
- Five crime-free years: every sentence, including probation and parole, completed at least five years before the application, with a law-abiding life during those five years.
- No pending charges anywhere, and all fines and restitution paid in full.
- Verification: the Board states that all information provided ‘must be verified’; a clemency investigator interviews every applicant, and the Georgia criminal history plus certified sentence documents for any disposition not on the record are required.
- Separate relief: restoration of civil and political rights needs only two years post-sentence; a pardon including the right to bear firearms requires a personal interview and a separate selection on the application.
- Cost: none. Processing averages six to nine months.
Disclose everything; minimize nothing. The Board reads the incident report before it reads your statement. An account of a Augusta conviction that contradicts the report, or a conviction left off the application, is a denial. Rehabilitation evidence works only alongside an honest account.
Investigator, Five Readers, a Majority Vote: The Atlanta File Review
The Georgia Board does not hold pardon hearings. Applications are filed electronically, a clemency investigator interviews the applicant and verifies the file, and the five Board members review the case file independently at the Board’s Atlanta office; a majority vote grants the pardon. The applicant, family, and supporters never appear. Everything the Board knows about the applicant’s rehabilitation is on paper — which is why the quality of the written file decides Georgia pardons.
For a Augusta conviction, the applicant chooses on the application which relief to seek: a pardon, a pardon including restoration of the right to bear firearms (which adds a personal interview), or restoration of civil and political rights alone (available two years after the sentence ends). The Board’s test for each is the same — reputation in the community and a crime-free record — and it is applied to the file.
What Goes Into the Georgia File — and Where the Completion Letter Goes
The Georgia file for a Augusta conviction contains the e-Pardon application; the Georgia criminal history and certified sentence documents; the clemency investigator’s interview and verification of everything you claim — employment, residence, conduct, community reputation; and the supporting documents you upload: a statement, reference letters, employment verification, and proof of completed rehabilitation programs. The first group is fixed by the record; the second is verified by the investigation; the third is the argument, and it is entirely in the applicant’s hands. Strong files treat the third group as a brief: a statement of responsibility that matches the record, references who can be reached, employment on letterhead, and proof of rehabilitation that describes what was done rather than asserting that something was.
That is the design of NJAMG’s Positive Momentum Anger Management documentation. The Positive Momentum Certificate of Completion carries a verification number. The Positive Momentum Completion Letter — two to five pages, lawyer-written, addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles — describes the assessment, the curriculum, each session by date, the engagement, and the change, and it states that enrollment was voluntary. File it with the application, and if the application is already pending, ask the Board’s office how to supplement.
What a Georgia Pardon Does to the Record — and What It Does Not
Georgia changed the value of a pardon in 2021. Before, a pardon was an ‘order of official forgiveness’ that sat on the criminal history next to the conviction. Now, under O.C.G.A. § 35-3-37(j)(7), the pardoned person may petition the court of conviction to restrict and seal the record of the pardoned offense — unless it was a serious violent felony under § 17-10-6.1 or a sexual offense under § 17-10-6.2, or there have been convictions since. For a Augusta conviction, the sequence is pardon first, restriction second, and the pardon file is the foundation of both.
The Georgia convictions this applies to most
Georgia’s family violence designation (O.C.G.A. § 19-13-1) attaches to battery, simple battery, assault, criminal trespass, and other offenses between past or present spouses, parents and children, household members, and co-parents; a family violence battery can be charged as a felony the second time. For a Augusta conviction, the designation is what the Board’s readers will notice first.
Why a Lawyer-Written Completion Letter Is Rehabilitation Evidence the Board Can Use
A pardon board can only weigh what it can read. The conviction tells the Board what happened; the statement tells it what the applicant thinks now; a completed program documented in detail tells it what the applicant did. Four things make that proof count for a Augusta conviction. Voluntary: a program the applicant chose years after any court obligation ended is evidence of insight, not compliance, and the Positive Momentum Completion Letter says so in its first paragraph. Recent: completed in the months before the application, it shows current change rather than a certificate from the sentencing year. Documented: the assessment, the curriculum, each session by date, the hours, the engagement. Verifiable: a named instructor with credentials and a phone number the Georgia investigator can call.
The letter is written to be quoted. When a Georgia investigator or Board member summarizes the applicant’s rehabilitation, the letter gives them the sentence. That alignment — the applicant’s account, the document, and the phone verification all matching — is what documented transformation looks like from the Board’s side of the desk.
How the Rehabilitation Track Is Built Behind the Completion Letter
NJAMG was founded by a retired criminal defense lawyer who spent fifteen years watching judges, prosecutors, and boards decide whether a person’s paperwork was credible. Positive Momentum Anger Management is built backward from that decision. The assessment establishes what actually happened and why; the customized curriculum addresses it specifically; the one-on-one live sessions — never a group, never a self-paced video — produce dated, verifiable attendance; and the Positive Momentum Completion Letter describes all of it in the language a pardon board uses. Applicants for a Augusta conviction are not put through a generic course and handed a generic certificate. They are assessed, taught, and documented by the same person, who then writes the letter.
The minimum is eight sessions; we recommend twelve or sixteen where the conviction is a felony, a domestic violence offense, or one where a victim may be heard. Documentation follows the work: an enrollment letter on day one, progress notes on request, and on the last day the Positive Momentum Certificate of Completion and the Positive Momentum Completion Letter — two to five pages, lawyer-written, addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
What the Positive Momentum Completion Letter Contains
- Purpose and voluntary enrollment — that the applicant sought the program on their own, after the case, for their rehabilitation and Georgia pardon application.
- The assessment — what the instructor found about the incident, the pattern, and the applicant’s history, in professional language a Board can rely on.
- The curriculum — the customized lessons and exercises, the REBT and CBT methods applied, and why they were chosen for this applicant.
- Every session by date and length — eight to sixteen private one-on-one live video sessions, with total hours.
- The applicant’s engagement — attendance, preparation, candor, and the work done between sessions.
- The instructor’s assessment of change — what the instructor observed shift over the program, stated as a professional opinion.
- Credentials and verification — Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T., retired criminal defense lawyer and former public defender; (201) 205-3201 for the Georgia investigator.
Not a court-ordered program, and not a substitute for one. If a Georgia court ordered anger management, a batterer intervention program, or treatment at the time of a Augusta conviction, that order was satisfied through the court’s own process, and the record of it belongs in your pardon file. NJAMG’s Positive Momentum Anger Management is a private, voluntary, psychoeducational program undertaken afterward — different evidence for a different purpose — and it is not psychotherapy or clinical treatment.
Rehabilitation-Track Pricing — Every Tier Includes the Letter
Pardon-Track Pricing: From $750. Direct Pay. Documentation Guaranteed.
- Eight sessions is the minimum for the rehabilitation track, because a pardon board is weighing years of conduct and a four-session certificate reads like a checkbox. Twelve and sixteen are available for felonies, domestic violence convictions, and files where a victim may be heard.
- Every tier includes everything: the assessment, the customized lessons, every private live session, the enrollment letter, progress notes, the Positive Momentum Certificate of Completion, and the two-to-five-page lawyer-written Positive Momentum Completion Letter addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Nothing is extra.
- Private pay only — we do not accept or bill insurance. A voluntary rehabilitation program should look voluntary, and a pardon file should not generate a diagnosis code or a claims record. Zelle, Apple Pay, Cash App, or card; payment plans available.
- Documentation guarantee. If the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles will not accept the Positive Momentum Certificate of Completion and Positive Momentum Completion Letter into your file for a Augusta conviction, your fee is refunded in full. No court or board has rejected NJAMG documentation since 2012. What no one can guarantee is the pardon — the Board decides.
From the Text to the File
- Text ENROLL GA to 201-205-3201. Tell us the conviction, the year, and where the Georgia application stands — not yet filed, pending, or scheduled.
- Same-day intake and assessment session. We set the program length — 8, 12, or 16 — around the file and the timeline, and issue an enrollment letter the same day.
- Customized lessons and exercises written from the assessment; private one-on-one live video sessions with the same instructor, seven days a week; progress notes whenever you need them.
- Positive Momentum Certificate of Completion and the lawyer-written Positive Momentum Completion Letter on the day you finish — two to five pages, addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, verification number included.
- Into the file: submitted with the application (or as a supplement to a pending one), cited in your statement, and ready for Atlanta.
Zero Judgment. Full Discretion.
Your enrollment for a Augusta conviction is private and paid directly, so it exists in no insurance record. Your sessions are private. The only place the documentation goes is where you send it — the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, and your attorney if you have one. Inside the program you are an adult with a file to strengthen, not a case to manage.
Every Google Review We Have Ever Received: Five Stars
Our clients are people who needed their paperwork to hold up in front of someone with the power to decide — and who finished the program, got their documentation, and moved on. Read their words on Google before you decide how to strengthen the Georgia file for a Augusta conviction.
“I had a great experience completing my 8 anger management sessions with this program. The director was understanding, professional, and very easy to communicate with. I was able to openly discuss my situation without feeling judged, and their guidance really helped me work through everything and communicate more effectively. I truly appreciate the support and encouragement I received throughout the process and would definitely recommend this program to others.”
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NJAMG was founded in Jersey City in 2012 by Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T. — a Rutgers Law graduate, former public defender, and family-law mediator named to Best Lawyers in America, who retired from practice to run this program full time. For fifteen years he stood next to people while judges, prosecutors, and boards decided whether their paperwork was credible; the Positive Momentum Completion Letter he writes for a Augusta conviction is built on what he learned they look for. Georgia has no approved-provider list for anger management submitted to its pardon board, so what the Board credits is what it finds credible — a named instructor with real credentials, dated live sessions, a real curriculum, a statement that enrollment was voluntary, and a phone number an investigator can call. No court or board has rejected NJAMG documentation since 2012, and our documentation guarantee applies to every Georgia pardon file.
Solicitud de perdón (pardon) en Georgia — ayuda en español
Si va a solicitar un perdón (pardon) ante la Junta Estatal de Perdones y Libertad Condicional de Georgia en Atlanta, la prueba de un programa de manejo de la ira completado es evidencia de rehabilitación. Para a Augusta conviction, nuestro programa Positive Momentum incluye una evaluación inicial, lecciones y ejercicios personalizados, de ocho a dieciséis sesiones privadas por video uno a uno con un abogado penalista retirado y entrenador certificado en manejo de la ira, el certificado de finalización y una carta de finalización de dos a cinco páginas escrita por el abogado y dirigida a la Junta. Inscripción voluntaria y privada, pago directo desde $750 — no aceptamos seguros. NJAMG no puede garantizar el resultado de ninguna solicitud. Envíe ENROLL GA por texto al 201-205-3201.
Georgia Pardon Questions We Get
What does the rehabilitation track cost?
For a Augusta conviction: eight sessions $750; twelve sessions $1,050; sixteen sessions $1,350 — each including the assessment, every private live video session, the enrollment letter, progress notes, the Positive Momentum Certificate of Completion, and the lawyer-written Positive Momentum Completion Letter. Direct pay only: Zelle, Apple Pay, Cash App, or card; payment plans available; no insurance. Documentation accepted into your Georgia file or refunded.
I completed a court-ordered class when my case was pending. Isn’t that enough?
Include it — it belongs in the file. But the Board reads a court-ordered program as a condition of the sentence, completed because a judge required it. A voluntary program completed years later, with nothing to gain but the change, is different evidence for a Augusta conviction: it shows insight rather than compliance. The Positive Momentum Completion Letter states that enrollment was voluntary.
Is NJAMG a licensed clinical treatment program?
No. NJAMG is a psychoeducational anger management program — assessment, customized lessons, and private one-on-one sessions with a certified anger management clinician who is also a retired criminal defense lawyer. It is not psychotherapy or clinical treatment, and the Positive Momentum Completion Letter says so. If your Georgia file calls for a licensed clinical evaluation, we will tell you at intake.
Does a completed anger management program guarantee a Georgia pardon?
No, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has full discretion. What Positive Momentum Anger Management does for a Augusta conviction is put specific, verifiable rehabilitation evidence — a lawyer-written, two-to-five-page Completion Letter describing a voluntary program — in front of the people who decide. In FY2024 the Board granted 346 of 845 applications; the difference was mostly files that asserted rehabilitation without documenting it.
Who writes the Completion Letter, and how long is it?
Santo V. Artusa Jr., J.D., C.A.M.T. — a retired criminal defense lawyer, former public defender, and certified anger management clinician who is also the instructor for every session. The Positive Momentum Completion Letter runs two to five pages depending on program length and the complexity of a Augusta conviction, and it is addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles. It describes voluntary enrollment, the assessment, the curriculum, each session by date, the applicant’s engagement, and the instructor’s assessment of change, and carries a phone number for verification.
Why is the minimum eight sessions?
Because a pardon board is weighing years of conduct, and a four-session certificate reads like a checkbox. Eight is the floor for the rehabilitation track; twelve or sixteen are recommended where a Augusta conviction is a felony, a domestic violence conviction, or a case where a victim may be heard. The letter is more persuasive the more there is to describe.
When am I eligible to apply in Georgia?
All sentences — including probation and parole — completed at least five years before applying; a law-abiding life during those five years; no pending charges; all fines and restitution paid. Ten years, plus evaluations, for registry sex offenses. Federal convictions cannot be pardoned by the state Board. Eligibility and suitability are different questions; the second is what the file for a Augusta conviction has to prove.
More Georgia Pardon Pages, and More From NJAMG
Pricing for a Augusta conviction. Rehabilitation track: 8 sessions $750 · 12 sessions $1,050 · 16 sessions $1,350 — each including the assessment, every private live session, the enrollment letter, progress notes, the Positive Momentum Certificate of Completion, and the lawyer-written Positive Momentum Completion Letter. Direct pay only (Zelle, Apple Pay, Cash App, card); payment plans available; no insurance.
Rehabilitation the Board Can Verify. From $750.
You cannot change the record on a Augusta conviction. You can change what sits beside it in the Georgia file. Text ENROLL GA to 201-205-3201.
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New Jersey Anger Management Group · 97 Newkirk Street, 2nd Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07306 · (201) 205-3201 · njangermgt@pm.me · Founded 2012 · Serving all 50 states. NJAMG is a private program and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, State Board of Pardons and Paroles, or any court. NJAMG is psychoeducational and is not psychotherapy or medical or mental health treatment, does not accept insurance, does not give legal advice, and cannot guarantee the outcome of any pardon application; the Board has full discretion to grant or deny. Eligibility rules, procedures, and statistics are drawn from the Board’s published rules, forms, and FAQs and from public sources as of September 2026 and may change. Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles: 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE, Suite 430, Atlanta, GA 30334 · (404) 656-4661. Statutes and rules referenced: O.C.G.A. §§ 16-5-20, 16-5-21, 16-5-23, 16-5-23.1, 16-7-21, 16-11-37, 17-10-6.1, 19-13-1, 35-3-37(j)(7), 42-9-42.