Kim Kardashian Continues Her Political Work
by EG
Donald Trump may have backpedaled on his promise to Kim Kardashian to work on prison reform, but maybe she can get him to release thousands of wrongfully convicted felons out of prison one at a time. Kim is reportedly working her Washington connections to try to free another inmate. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
After helping to get Alice Johnson released from prison, Kim Kardashian says she’s become deeply involved with criminal justice. And the reality-TV star says she’s already working with the White House to get another felon sprung.
In a lengthy appearance on Jason Flom’s “Wrongful Conviction” podcast — due to go live Wednesday and exclusively previewed by Page Six — Kardashian says that she’s been speaking with Chris Young, who was sentenced to life in prison for marijuana and cocaine possession after being arrested in 2010.
“Yesterday, I had a call with a gentleman that’s in prison for a drug case — got life. It’s so unfair. He’s 30 years old. He’s been in for almost 10 years,” she said.
Kardashian says that Young was sentenced to life without parole — for possession of marijuana and half a gram of cocaine — only because of mandatory-sentencing regulations.
She also says she’s spoken with former Tennessee Judge Kevin Sharp, who resigned because the law forced him to mete out such a harsh sentence.
“I was on the phone with the judge that sentenced him to life,” said the “Keeping Up with The Kardashians” star in the sit-down, “who resigned because he had never been on the side of having to do something so unfair, and now he is fighting [alongside] us to get [Young] out.”
Kardashian also said that she talks regularly with President Trump son-in-law and aide, Jared Kushner, whom she called “passionate” about changing sentencing laws.
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