Crystal Munoz was among several people granted clemency by President Trump after her case was championed by Alice Marie Johnson, who herself got clemency in 2018 at the urging of reality TV star Kim Kardashian West.
Crystal Munoz, who spent the last 12 years in prison after being convicted on marijuana charges, found an effective advocate in former federal prisoner Alice Marie Johnson.
Johnson, who the president granted clemency in June 2018 and who was featured in one of Trump’s campaign adsThey were in the same housing unit and attended church together. Johnson told The Associated Press she came to think of the younger woman as “one of my prison daughters.”Munoz was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted in 2007 of conspiring to distribute majujuana.
Munoz gave birth while in federal custody and was shackled during her delivery, according to Amy Ralston Povah, the founder and president of the non-profit Clemency for All Non-Violent Drug Offenders Foundation, which advocated for Munoz’s release. The bipartisan criminal justice bill known as theJohnson said that after she was released she could not stop thinking about how to help Munoz, and other women in prison.
The chance came in October when, Johnson said, Trump asked her for a list of others deserving clemency during a“Kim made a difference going to the White House fighting for me,” Johnson said, “so if I can fight for something I definitely wasn’t going to turn that opportunity down.”This story has been corrected to show that President Donald Trump granted clemency Crystal Munoz on Tuesday, not Wednesday.
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