Trump appointee Alice Marie Johnson seeks second possibilities for non-violent offenders

[ad_1] Alice Marie Johnson has gone from jail to the White Home, the place she's main the cost as President Donald Trump 's pardon czar, and she will hardly consider the transformation.

The previous Trump pardonee now works with the president's administration to carry hope to these nonetheless trapped in a damaged system.

Chatting with "My View" host Lara Trump, she laid out her imaginative and prescient for the position — discovering non-violent offenders who deserve a second probability, who've paid their dues to society and who've been victims of lawfare.

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"There are legal guidelines that should be modified as a result of, even in my place, I am not going to have the ability to discover everybody," she stated.

"I'm going to seek out as many as I probably can discover, however I am additionally going to be advocating [for change] and searching on the issues which might be on the market, on the books, that must be modified, however to additionally do what the president has entrusted me to do, and let's discover these people who want their second chance , these people who had misplaced hope in a system that was completely corrupt."

"We now know it isn't about how a lot cash you may have. In case you have a corrupt system in place, there is no such thing as a one secure," she added.

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Alice Marie Johnson, who had her sentence commuted by U.S. President Donald Trump (L) after serving 21 years in jail for cocaine trafficking, thanks the press throughout a celebration of the First Step Act within the East Room of the White Home April 01, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla)

A collection of unlucky occasions, together with her son's loss of life, monetary troubles and a divorce, led to Johnson's involvement with cocaine sellers within the Nineteen Nineties in Memphis, Tennessee. Whereas she claims she by no means "touched, noticed or bought a single drug," she admitted to aiding in communications.

Johnson was sentenced to life with out the potential of parole, a sentence she was "completely not" ready for, nor did she assume it was "warranted," however she's grateful her scenario caught President Trump's consideration.

Trump commuted her life sentence in 2018 after she served 21 years in an Alabama jail however finally gave her a full pardon in 2020.

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The president appointed her to the pardon czar place earlier this yr, tasking her with figuring out the most effective pardon candidates and assessing their readiness to reintegrate into their communities.

"It is simply unimaginable to me that my life would take a full-circle journey. Seven years in the past, I used to be sitting in a jail cell…" she stated. "…It is very easy for me as a result of I've lived it, so the president has entrusted me with this mission."