This is the Katorri Daily Podcast for Wednesday, June 6, 2018.

I'm Keelet Brown.

With the advocacy of Kim Kardashian, one woman who, all accounts should not have been given a life sentence will now return to her family now that she's received a commutation from the president.

Molly Gill is vice president for policy at Families Against Mandatory Minimums.

She comments.

Who is Alice Marie Johnson?

Alice Marie Johnson is a 63 year old woman. She's a mother and after a string of financial setbacks

she got involved with selling drugs in the Memphis, Tennessee

area and was ultimately caught and convicted for that and

received a life without parole prison sentence even though she had no prior

criminal record. And today, Alice Marie Johnson got the wonderful news that her prison sentence has been commuted by President Donald Trump and so she's going to be able to go home and reunite with her family.

So Kim Kardashian West was an extremely effective advocate for this woman and what was her role? What did she do besides have this meeting with Donald Trump now last week?

What was what did she do for her?

Well I think Kim Kardashian has raised the awareness around Alice Johnson's case.

She found out about Alice Johnson's situation through reading news stories and she

tweeted about her several times that raised the profile and then she

went in and she actually met face to face with the president and said you need to let this woman

out of prison and so her her advocacy was effective and I think some people

criticize it when you know celebrities go in and advocate for for pardons for people

but in this case it worked and there's a very grateful family on the receiving end.

All right so it's unfortunate that this is what it takes. You know, presidents at the end of their ten years will

on their way out the door will issue pardons and some presidents will issue pardons earlier.

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