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Annie Howell
Pardoned January 6 defendant
Documented editorial-use imageAnnie Howell is a mother from Swoyersville, Pennsylvania — Luzerne County, coal-country stock — and hers is one of the most honest rebuilding stories to come out of January 6. FACT: she pleaded guilty on December 2, 2021 to a single count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. FACT: on March 2, 2022 she was sentenced to 36 months of probation with 60 days of intermittent confinement — served in ten-day increments at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility — plus 60 hours of community service and $500 restitution. What came after is the real story. Annie Howell lost her job and her home. She kept going anyway. FACT: her fight to rebuild — hours spent studying in the public library, holding her family together — is documented in the Pulitzer Center-supported film Public Defender by director Andrea Kalin. FACT: the Pulitzer Center has featured her journey, including her use of knowledge as rehabilitation and her growing interest in prison reform. FACT: on January 20, 2025, she was pardoned under the presidential clemency proclamation covering January 6 cases. THEIR ACCOUNT: Annie Howell accepted the pardon while speaking openly about her regret — owning her past and claiming her future at the same time. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-217, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Guilty plea to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building; probation with intermittent confinement, completed. Pardoned January 20, 2025. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:21-cr-217
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Disposition
- Arrested 3/9. Indicted 3/12/21. Initial appearance held 3/17/21. Arraigned 4/7/21 and pleaded not guilty to counts 1-5. Plea agreement entered 12/2/2021 and pleaded guilty to count 2. Sentenced 3/2/22 to 36 months of probation, including 60 days of intermittent incarceration, 60 hours of community service, $500 in restitution.
- Plea
- December 2, 2021
- Sentenced
- March 2, 2022
Charges
- Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Aiding and Abetting; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
Sentence
36 months of probation, including 60 days of intermittent incarceration, 60 hours of community service, $500 in restitution
Press & news
- https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/i-feel-betrayed-woman-sentenced-for-jan-6-breach-claims-she-was-promised-white-house-job-gets-jail-time-instead/ →
- https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/behind-story-life-after-prison-trumps-pardon-and-road-reform →
- https://pulitzercenter.org/people/annie-howell →
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/ →
- https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/luzerne-county-woman-goes-to-court-for-role-in-capitol-riot-annie-howell/523-6c61ed31-96da-47b0-9c88-99ef2196b673 →
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