{"id":10065,"date":"2024-12-13T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realitytidbit.com\/?p=367348"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:03:17","slug":"a-round-up-of-every-time-kim-kardashian-successfully-helped-free-someone-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2024\/12\/13\/a-round-up-of-every-time-kim-kardashian-successfully-helped-free-someone-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"A round-up of every time Kim Kardashian successfully helped free someone from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kim Kardashian has helped free many prisoners out of jail, and is being urged to be Luigi Mangione&#8217;s lawyer as he became a suspect\u00a0in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/tag\/the-kardashians\">The Kardashians<\/a> star is known for starting out as a reality TV personality, but she&#8217;s been devoting a lot of her time to the law over the last few years. <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/tag\/kim-kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a> is committed to helping break prisoners free.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 991px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/172731_0009r-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Gypsy Rose smiles and hugs Kim Kardashian on The Kardashians.\" class=\"wp-image-534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/172731_0009r-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/172731_0009r-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/172731_0009r-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/172731_0009r-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/172731_0009r-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/172731_0009r-750x422.jpg 750w\" \/><\/div><figcaption title=\"Credit: Disney\/Hulu\/The Kardashians\">Credit: Disney\/Hulu\/The Kardashians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-kim-advocated-for-alice-marie-johnson-s-freedom\">Kim advocated for Alice Marie Johnson&#8217;s freedom<\/h2>\n<p>In 1996,\u00a0Alice Marie Johnson\u00a0was sentenced to life imprisonment for her involvement in a drug trade. After 21 years in prison, she was granted clemency after Kim advocated for her freedom.<\/p>\n<p>She held onto hope to escape for the entire time, but the 64-year-old woman was freed from prison with Kim&#8217;s help. Alice is now a criminal justice reform advocate, just like Kim.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve become good friends over the last five years, but it all started when Kim wrote a tweet to millions of\u00a0followers\u00a0on October 25, 2017 &#8211; and Alice didn&#8217;t even know who she was at the time!<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links\">\n<li><svg width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><use href=\"#list-arrow-svg\"><\/use><\/svg><strong>OMG: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/news\/the-kardashians\/omg-cooper-koch-just-said-he-owes-his-life-to-kim-kardashian-for-doing-him-a-huge-favor\">Cooper Koch owes his life to Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kim visited President Trump at the White House to talk about Alice&#8217;s case, and a week later, commuted her sentence and she was soon released and united with her family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more-wrapper lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"embed_367348_1\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more twitter\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is so unfair&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W3lPINbQuy\">https:\/\/t.co\/W3lPINbQuy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\/status\/923360255513264128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"see-more-overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more-label\"><label for=\"embed_367348_1\">View Tweet<\/label><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-she-helped-free-17-inmates-in-90-days\">She helped free 17 inmates in 90 days<\/h2>\n<p>Kim helped Brittany K. Barnett, Kardashian&#8217;s personal attorney and co-founder of the Buried Alive Project, and MiAngel Cody, lead counsel of the The Decarceration Collective, free 17 inmates in three months.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the prisoners that were freed were first-time nonviolent drug offenders serving life sentences without parole. At the time, Kim was secretly funding a criminal justice campaign.<\/p>\n<p>She covered the legal fees for the lawyers to travel around the country, which wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without her financial help. And Kim didn&#8217;t just pay the fees, but helped the prisoners get home.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-in-2020-kim-fought-for-three-female-prisoners\">In 2020, Kim fought for three female prisoners<\/h2>\n<p>Donald Trump cut short the\u00a0jail\u00a0sentences of Crystal Munoz, Judith Negron and Tynice Hall in February 2020, after Kim paid him another visit at the White House, two years after Alice Johnson was freed.<\/p>\n<p>The women, who attended the White House visit alongside Kim, had been jailed for drug-related and white collar crimes, and all had young children when they were imprisoned. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump commuted the sentences of three really deserving women. I didn&#8217;t hear much about it in the news so I wanted to share with you their stores!&#8221; Kim tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;I have the pleasure of spending the day with these women today along with @AliceMarieFree [Alice Johnson] who helped to pick these women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-kim-helped-pass-the-first-step-act\">Kim helped pass the First Step Act<\/h2>\n<p>Along with\u00a0Van Jones\u00a0and\u00a0Jared Kushner, Kim was instrumental in persuading President Trump to support the\u00a0First Step Act, which enacted major reforms in the US prison system. <\/p>\n<p>Van Jones later stated that without Kardashian, the act would have never passed because it would not have received the president&#8217;s support. It was later passed by a great majority in the\u00a0US Senate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more-wrapper\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"embed_367348_2\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more twitter\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Notice who\u2019s the common denominator between Kamala Harris and Donald trump and was present in the White House? The Kim Kardashian <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eHiyKLdfYe\">pic.twitter.com\/eHiyKLdfYe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; leandre koffi (@leandek15) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leandek15\/status\/1815144571594297578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"see-more-overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more-label\"><label for=\"embed_367348_2\">View Tweet<\/label><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-she-helped-free-a-woman-who-lost-her-daughter\">She helped free a woman who lost her daughter<\/h2>\n<p>In April 2022, Kardashian advocated for the clemency of\u00a0Melissa Lucio, the only woman of Hispanic descent on Texas&#8217; death row, in a series of tweets. She had been on death row for 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>She tweeted, &#8220;I recently just read about the case of Melissa Lucio and wanted to share her story with you. She has been on death row for over 14 years for her daughter&#8217;s death that was a tragic accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Melissa&#8217;s daughter was two years old when she died. When Lucio was granted a\u00a0stay of execution\u00a0on April 25 that year, Kardashian celebrated on her social media channels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more-wrapper\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"embed_367348_3\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more twitter\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So heartbreaking to read this letter from Melissa Lucio\u2019s children begging for the state not to kill their mother. There are so many unresolved questions surrounding this case and the evidence that was used to convict her. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SjEtsfmZeq\">pic.twitter.com\/SjEtsfmZeq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\/status\/1511889252811886595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"see-more-overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more-label\"><label for=\"embed_367348_3\">View Tweet<\/label><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rapper-gunna-was-supported-by-kim\">Rapper Gunna was supported by Kim<\/h2>\n<p>Kim supported rapper Gunna, who is now freed but was imprisoned without bond and charged with one count of violating the\u00a0Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.<\/p>\n<p>In October of the same year, Gunna was again denied release from jail ahead of his January trial. In December, Gunna pled guilty to a single charge of racketeering and was sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>After one year in jail, the rapper had the rest of the sentence suspended subject to probation conditions. He was soon released from jail, and instead was ordered to serve 500 hours of\u00a0community service.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-family-reunited-with-loved-one-jeffrey\">Family reunited with loved one Jeffrey<\/h2>\n<p>Kim funded Jeffrey Stringer&#8217;s release from a Miami prison. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for a drug offense, and served 22 years until Kim advocated for his early release.<\/p>\n<p>Stringer\u2019s family told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/florida-man-serving-life-in-prison-gets-second-chance-at-life-thanks-to-kim-kardashian-west-and-lawyer\/78527\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC 6<\/a> they had a FaceTime call with Kim after a hearing. Jeffrey\u2019s mother says he plans on mentoring young men in his community, to teach them not to go down the same path he did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more-wrapper\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"embed_367348_4\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more twitter\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We did it again! Had the best call w\/this lovely family &amp; my attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsBKB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@msbkb<\/a> who just won release for their loved one Jeffrey in Miami &#8211; he served 22 years of life sentence for low level drug case. He served too much time but it gives me so much joy to fund this life saving work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pbYicKmFpJ\">pic.twitter.com\/pbYicKmFpJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\/status\/1124379995143426048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"see-more-overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more-label\"><label for=\"embed_367348_4\">View Tweet<\/label><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"inline-links\">\n<li><svg width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><use href=\"#list-arrow-svg\"><\/use><\/svg><strong>NOT AGAIN<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/shows\/another-accident-for-kim-kardashian-just-months-after-gruesome-finger-injury\">ANOTHER accident for Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round-up of every time Kim Kardashian successfully helped free someone from 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