{"id":5350,"date":"2016-08-30T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T19:25:58","slug":"michael-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/michael-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Alexander – 22 years 4 months – NOW FREE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please sign Michael’s Change.org petition<\/a>
\n\"mike-alexander-02\"Name:<\/strong> Michael F. Alexander #33454-060
\nDOB:<\/strong> Dec. 19, 1963
\nChildren:<\/strong> 3 children : 30, 29 and 11 years old
\nGrandchildren:<\/strong> 5 grandchildren
\nRaised:<\/strong> Cleveland, Ohio
\nIndicted:<\/strong> Cleveland, Ohio
\nWill Live:<\/strong> Cleveland, Ohio
\nServed:<\/strong> 14 years
\nCharges:<\/strong> Poss. w\/intent to distribute 3 and 1\/2 kilos of powder cocaine
\nSentence:<\/strong> 22 years and 4 months
\nSentenced:<\/strong> Oct. 2005
\nPriors:<\/strong> 2 drug priors
\nPrison conduct:<\/strong> 3 minor incidents
\nClemency Status<\/strong>: Pending\u00a0\u00a0Clemency Case No. C177165
\nSupporters:<\/strong> CAN-DO Foundation, family Crack Open the Door
\nInstitution:<\/strong> FCI Ray Brook, New York
\nAccomplishments:<\/strong>\u00a0During my incarceration I have completed over 60 programs offered by the B.O.P., including the 350 hour C.A.S.A.C.
\n(Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor) Program, which allows me to pursue a career as an Certified\u00a0Substance Abuse Counselor and I’m also certified by the NFPT (National Federation of Professional Trainers).<\/p>\n

\"mike-alexander_01\"According to Michael:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

My youngest son was born after I was locked up so I have never held him or hugged him in the free world. \u00a0That is a painful thing to live with.
\nI have served over 2 decades of a federal sentence for possession w\/intent to distribute powder cocaine and I’ve been incarcerated since September 2004. My instant offense carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years, but
\nthe government filed what is known as section 851 prior conviction enhancement, which then raised (doubled) my\u00a0mandatory minimum sentence from 5 years to 10 years and because of my prior non-violent drug convictions, I\u00a0was then classified and sentenced under 4B1.1, which is Career Drug Offender, which then raised my sentencing\u00a0range up from 10 years to 30 years !<\/p>\n

I accept full responsibility for my actions that led to my incarceration and when people break the law, we must\u00a0be punished. \u00a0I also, agree with President Obama’s speech that he gave in the summer of 2015 to the NAACP, wherein he\u00a0stated “When people commit drug crimes, they owe a debt to society, but they don’t owe 20 or 30 years of their lives\u00a0or Life in prison”. Unfortunately I am still in prison after 14 years.<\/p>\n

Letter from Michael to President Trump:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a non-violent, low level drug offender, without significant ties to large scale criminal organizations, gangs, or cartels.\u00a0 <\/span>I have no history of violence prior to or during my current term of imprisonment.\u00a0 <\/span>There is no dispute that I committed a serious offense and I owe a debt to society.\u00a0 <\/span>I pled guilty and I was sentenced to 22 years and 4 months as a Non-Violent Career Drug Offender.\u00a0 <\/span>My current offense only carried a 5-year mandatory sentence, but because of my two non-violent drug offenses my sentence was enhanced by 17 years.<\/p>\n

During my incarceration I knew I had to make a change for the better.\u00a0 <\/span>So, I chose to rehabilitate myself as best I could to make myself marketable upon my release.\u00a0 <\/span>At my age (54) I can’t afford to make the same mistakes that I’ve made in the past. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since my incarceration I’ve become an Alternative to Violence (AVP) Facilitator, Suicide Companion, Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (C.A..S.A.C.) 2016 Graduate, and I am now 3 college classes (9 credits) away from earning my two year Associates Degree in Liberal Arts through the Second Chance Pell Grant with a 3.9 grade point average.\u00a0 <\/span>Also, I have completed over fifty Adult Continuation Education (ACE) Courses offered through the B.O.P.<\/p>\n

My release would allow me the chance to apply the accomplishments that I’ve made during my incarceration to become a productive member of society.\u00a0 <\/span>It would also allow me to return to my mother who’s 74 years old, my two sons (32 years old and 13 years old), my daughter (31 years old), and my five grandchildren ages 14, 13, 10, 7 and 3. I continue to fully accept responsibility for my actions. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In closing, it is with sincere humility that I ask you, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to grant my petition for clemency.<\/p>\n

Respectfully,<\/p>\n

Michael Alexander\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please sign Michael’s Change.org petition Name: Michael F. Alexander #33454-060 DOB: Dec. 19, 1963 Children: 3 children : 30, 29 and 11 years old Grandchildren: 5 grandchildren Raised: Cleveland, Ohio Indicted: Cleveland, Ohio Will Live: Cleveland, Ohio Served: 14 years Charges: Poss. w\/intent to distribute 3 and 1\/2 kilos of powder cocaine Sentence: 22 years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5643,"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":[5],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-free","tag-can-do-foundation"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mike-headshot.png",272,260,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"Now Free","slug":"now-free","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":192,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":192,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Now Free","category_nicename":"now-free","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":5,"label":"Now Free"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","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=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14842,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/14842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}