Donald Trump’s decision comes after Kim Kardashian West’s visit to the White House to discuss prison reforms, sentencing and also about Alice Marie Johnson case.
The White House said Johnson had been a model prisoner and worked hard to rehabilitate herself. After four years of seeking clemency and two presidential administrations, Alice Marie Johnson is finally going home.
In 1996, Johnson was jailed alongside 15 others for taking part in a cocaine distribution ring and convicted on charges of attempted possession of drugs and money-laundering in Tennesse.
One of Johnson’s attorneys, Brittany K. Barnett, released a statement on Wednesday thanking the president and said his clemency saved Alice Johnson’s life.
“Justice has been served today, and it’s long overdue. Alice has more than paid her debt to society by serving over 21 years of a life-without-parole sentence as a nonviolent drug offender. Life in prison without the possibility of parole screams that a person is beyond hope, beyond redemption. And in Alice’s case, it is a punishment that absolutely did not fit the crime,” Barnett said in her statement.
Kardashian also thanked Trump and a number of others who worked on Johnson’s case in her tweets. The reality star also described what happened as she broke the news to Johnson about her commuted sentence.
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