Kim Kardashian visits White House with female prisoners she helped free
‘White House here we come!’ tweets reality TV star
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Your support makes all the difference.Kim Kardashian West returned to the White House on Wednesday with women she recently helped free from prison.
The reality TV star lobbied for the early release of three female prisoners jailed for drug-related and white collar crimes.
In February, Donald Trump agreed to cut short the sentences of the women; Crystal Munoz, Judith Negron and Tynice Hall.
“Today Alice, Crystal, Judith, Tynice and I, along with the @cut_50 team will be at the White House bringing light to these women and discuss more change that our justice system desperately needs!” Kardashian West tweeted on Wednesday.
The women freed were suggested by Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who was granted clemency by Trump in 2018 after Kardashian West lobbied the White House for her release.
Ms Johnson was given a life sentence after being convicted for a non-violent drugs incident in 1996.
Kardashian West, who revealed last year that she was training to become a lawyer, shared the stories of each of the women she helped free on Twitter.
“Tynice Hall was sentenced to 35 years in prison for a first time non violent drug conspiracy,” the 39-year-old wrote.
“Her boyfriend at the time used her house for his illegal drug activities. She was only 22 years old when she went to prison and left behind a three-year-old son.”
Kardashian West explained that the other two women, Ms Negron and Ms Munoz, were also both mothers at the time of their convictions.
“President Trump commuted the sentences of three really deserving women,” Kardashian West added in a subsequent tweet.
“I didn’t hear much about it in the news so I wanted to share with you their stories! I have the pleasure of spending the day with these women today along with @AliceMarieFree who helped to pick these women.”
Ivanka Trump also met the three former female prisoners and shared a photograph of herself with them and Kardashian West on Twitter.
In April 2019, Kardashian West revealed she was studying to become a lawyer and planned to take the bar by 2022.
Speaking to Vogue, to the entrepreneur, whose father Robert Kardashian was famous for being OJ Simpson’s defence attorney, explained she decided to embark on her new career after her successful appeal to Trump regarding Ms Johnson’s clemency.
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