# Non-Prosecution Agreement > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. A letter. The Department of Justice agrees not to bring a criminal charge; the subject agrees to a statement of facts, compliance obligations, continued cooperation, and a term of years. **Nothing is filed.** No charging document, no case number, no assigned judge, no docket — and therefore no point at which any court is asked to approve, review, interpret or enforce any part of it. That absence is the whole structural significance of the instrument. Its nearer twin, the [[Deferred Prosecution Agreement]], is substantively similar and sits on the other side of the courthouse door because a charge is actually filed. The Justice Manual directs that corporate resolution agreements be published on the Department's website absent exceptional circumstances, but publication is an internal practice, revocable by the officials it governs, with no remedy if withheld — materially unlike a court record a third party can move to unseal. Under the Department-wide [[Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy]] announced in March 2026, the NPA is the **only** resolution instrument the Department commits itself by name to providing: for the policy's "near miss" tier it *shall* offer one, with a term under three years and no [[Compliance Monitor]]. The best-known example long predates that policy and is not a corporate case: see [[Epstein Non-Prosecution Agreement]]. ## See also - [[Deferred Prosecution Agreement]] · [[Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreement Crosswalk]] - [[Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy]] · [[Compliance Monitor]] - [[Epstein Non-Prosecution Agreement]] · [[How a Federal Prosecution Begins and Ends]] - [[Prosecutorial Discretion]] · [[Justice Manual]] · [[Elite Impunity]]