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Trump Commutes Life Sentence of Nonviolent Drug Offender Alice Marie Johnson

HeadlineJun 07, 2018

President Trump has commuted the life sentence of a woman who was imprisoned for a first-time nonviolent drug offense, after her cause was taken up by reality television star Kim Kardashian West. Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother from Memphis, was released Wednesday from federal prison in Aliceville, Alabama, where she had been serving her sentence for nearly 22 years.

Alice Marie Johnson: “This is a miracle day. This has been one—the greatest day of my life, the most unexpected thing to happen to me in my life. … I’m just so thankful. I feel like my life is starting over again.”

We’ll have more on Trump’s commutation of Alice Marie Johnson’s life sentence after headlines.

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