Reality television star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian joined Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable discussion on Thursday to discuss criminal justice reform and pardons recently issued by President Joe Biden.
The conversation included four recent pardon recipients — Jason Hernandez, Bobby Darrell Lowery, Jesse Mosley, and Beverly Holcy — and came a day after Biden granted clemency to 16 people.
In a statement, Biden said that April is Second Chance Month, and that he is using his clemency power to pardon 11 individuals and commute the sentences of five individuals who were convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
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“Many of these individuals received disproportionately longer sentences than they would have under current law, policy, and practice,” …