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B2G

(9,766 posts)
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:18 PM Jun 2018

Laughing at Kim Kardashian is fun!

And she's right. I'm glad Trump is listening.

Snip from the link:

"For Alice Johnson, life in federal prison has almost been the equivalent of a death sentence in some ways. In a video interview posted by Mic.com, and which you can watch above, Alice Johnson said of her life prison term: “It’s like an unexecuted sentence of death.”

She described the toll that her lengthy incarceration has had on her family. “One of my family members told me one time, and I’ll never forget this, that coming to visit me in prison is like visiting a gravesite,” she said in the video. “They said they can see the site where my body lay but they can never take me home again.”

Johnson does not have the opportunity for parole because she is incarcerated in the federal system and received a life sentence. According to Mic, she is one of more than 3,200 people serving life without parole sentences for a nonviolent offense in the federal system, 65 percent of whom are black and most of whom are drug offenders. Those figures came from a 2013 report by the American Civil Liberties Union, which you can read here."


https://heavy.com/news/2018/05/alice-marie-johnson/

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Laughing at Kim Kardashian is fun! (Original Post) B2G Jun 2018 OP
Is he? He hasn't pardoned Alice Johnson; instead he pardoned Dinesh D'Souza. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2018 #1
He's not listening... vi5 Jun 2018 #2
 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
2. He's not listening...
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:53 PM
Jun 2018

...it is foolish to think that anything other than vile thoughts were going through his head as Kardashian stood in front of him.

I would also highly doubt this is anything other than a PR stunt on Kim K's behalf and that she could not possibly care any less about prisoners. There's nothing in anything she's ever done or said in her lift to think that this is an issue that she has an ounce of sincerity on.

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