According to reports, Kim Kardashian is working with the White House in an effort to free another convicted felon.
Kardashian was previously influential in the release of Alice Johnson. Johnson, a 63-year-old from Tennessee who was sentenced to life in prison in 1996 on non-violent drug charges, was commuted by President Trump.
Page Six reports that Kardashian been speaking with Chris Young, a 30-year-old who was sentenced to life in prison for marijuana and cocaine possession after being arrested in 2010.
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via Page Six:
“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 on Jason Flom’s “Wrongful Conviction” podcast.
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.
Earlier in 2018, Kardashian worked with President Trump on commuting the sentence of Alice Johnson, saying that she “figured Ivanka [Trump] would totally understand and feel the same thing that I felt. So, my first call was to Ivanka.”
