{"id":11402,"date":"2020-04-24T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:39:13","slug":"crystal-munoz-tynice-hall-and-judith-negron-among-clemency-recipients-by-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/crystal-munoz-tynice-hall-and-judith-negron-among-clemency-recipients-by-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Munoz, Tynice Hall and Judith Negron among clemency recipients by President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Advocates for justice overhaul said Mr. Trump should be praised for his interventions. \u201cSome people are trying to bash Trump for letting people circumvent the process and go directly to the White House,\u201d said Amy Ralston Povah, the founder of the Clemency for All Nonviolent Drug Offenders Foundation. \u201cBut the system is broken.\u201d

While most of this week\u2019s recipients had political ties, Mr. Trump\u2019s defenders pointed to three women whose sentences he commuted without any notable political background. But even those three \u2014 Ms. Munoz, 40, Tynice Nichole Hall, 36, and Judith Negron, 48 \u2014 came to his attention because of someone he already knew, Alice Marie Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump commuted Ms. Johnson\u2019s life sentence<\/a> for a nonviolent drug conviction in 2018 after the reality television star Kim Kardashian West made a personal plea. Since then, Ms. Johnson has become his prison reform whisperer and appeared in a multimillion-dollar Super Bowl ad<\/a> for his campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During an October appearance at Benedict College, a historically black school in South Carolina, Mr. Trump told Ms. Johnson to give him the names of others who had been mistreated. Ms. Johnson then traveled to Washington to meet with prisoner advocates and they identified about 10 women for the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Johnson served in prison with all three of those released this week by Mr. Trump. \u201cThey don\u2019t have Kim Kardashian, but they have me to fight for them,\u201d she said in an interview. She was especially close to Ms. Munoz. \u201cCrystal was like my daughter in prison,\u201d she said. \u201cIn fact, I called her my prison daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Negron, who was sentenced to 35 years for Medicare fraud, filed a clemency petition years ago but it \u201cdisappeared into the bowels of the government,\u201d according to her lawyer, Bill Norris. She was stunned to learn that the president had suddenly ordered her freed. \u201cI\u2019m indebted to him,\u201d she said on Wednesday. \u201cHe gave us our dream come true. He gave me back my family. He gave me back our home. Just a new life. The nightmare is over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Munoz, serving nearly two decades on a marijuana charge, said that she was called to the office of her case manager and counselor on Tuesday. \u201cWhen I went into their office, they said, \u2018Who do you know? Do you know some people?\u2019\u201d She did not understand at first. But the person she knew had secured her a commutation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the entire story here:<\/a>
Read more about Crystal Munoz here<\/a>
Read more about Tynice Hall here<\/a>
Read more about Judith Negron here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Advocates for justice overhaul said Mr. Trump should be praised for his interventions. \u201cSome people are trying to bash Trump for letting people circumvent the process and go directly to the White House,\u201d said Amy Ralston Povah, the founder of the Clemency for All Nonviolent Drug Offenders Foundation. \u201cBut the system is broken.\u201d While most…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-can-do-media","category-can-do-news","tag-can-do-foundation"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/images-4.png",225,225,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":40,"name":"CAN-DO in the Media","slug":"can-do-media","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":199,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":40,"category_count":199,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO in the Media","category_nicename":"can-do-media","category_parent":0},{"term_id":4,"name":"CAN-DO News","slug":"can-do-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":224,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":224,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO News","category_nicename":"can-do-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-foundation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":461,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":40,"label":"CAN-DO in the Media"},{"value":4,"label":"CAN-DO News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14578,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/14578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}