{"id":5645,"date":"2016-10-02T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T21:24:44","slug":"badly-need-clemencies-women-influence-amy-povah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/badly-need-clemencies-women-influence-amy-povah\/","title":{"rendered":"“Why we Badly Need More Clemencies for Women” in The Influence by Amy Povah"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I Got a 24-Year Sentence for MDMA My Husband Made”\u2014Why We Badly Need More Clemencies for Women<\/a>\u00a0by Amy Ralston Povah for the Influence<\/a> – a cutting edge publication that focuses primarily on the war on drugs.<\/p>\n

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September 22nd, 2016
\nby Amy Povah<\/p>\n

July 7, 2000 was the greatest day of my life. It was the day when President Clinton had mercy on my suffering soul and commuted my 24-year sentence to time served\u2014after I\u2019d languished in hell for nine years and three months. That\u2019s what prison is: hell. And the United states, with less than 5 percent of the world\u2019s population but almost 25 percent of the world\u2019s prison population, is ground zero for this hell on earth.<\/p>\n

I believe that my story and the stories of many other women like me, are a particularly brutal manifestation of this\u2014and as I\u2019ll explain, the clemency so far granted by President Obama to my fellow women in prison is nowhere near enough.<\/p>\n

Read the entire Op Ed by clicking the image above.<\/p>\n

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