‘I get a chance to use my voice’: Alice Johnson helps secure commutations for drug offenders

Published February 19, 2020 5:53pm ET



Included among President Trump’s high-profile grants of clemency that grabbed national attention this week were sentence commutations for two nonviolent drug offenders thanks to some help from former federal prisoner Alice Johnson.

The president announced 11 pardons Tuesday and commutations for several well-known convicted criminals, including former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr., and “junk bond king” Michael Milken. Slipped in among them were Tynice Nichole Hall and Crystal Munoz, who have both spent more than a decade in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.

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