Kim Kardashian West is taking her law-studies and work on criminal justice reform issues very seriously.
On Thursday, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star returned to Washington, D.C. by to attend the Second Chance Hiring and Re-entry event at the White House.
While there, the reality star met with President Trump and Cut50 advocates in order to talk about the recently passed First Step Act – which is a new bill that allows nonviolent offenders the chance to re-enter society without judgment.
The 38-year-old delivered a powerful speech about what she’s planning on doing to help former inmates as she did with Alice Marie Johnson, who was recently granted clemency by the president.
“After speaking to Ivanka [Trump] and Jared [Kushner], who really fought for me to get here,” she started in her speech. “I plead the case of Alice Johnson, who the president granted clemency to, and after that I really spent so much time going to different prisons, because I really had no connection to anybody on the inside, and really, it just felt like for me, I’m at the place in my life where I wanted to make a difference.”
She continued, “I wanted to do the right thing. But I didn’t know how or what to do. After going to visit so many different prisons and really sitting down with lifers with every situation you can possibly imagine, my heart just completely opened up, and I wanted to do more.”
“I am so happy to be here today among people who want the same thing,” she shared. “I’m so happy to announce today that we have a rideshare partnership, where formally incarcerated people will be gifted gift cards so they can get rides to and from job interviews, jobs, family members. That is so important, so needed.”
Following her speech at the White House, Kardashian West then took to Twitter to discuss the work she’s been doing since the First Step Act passed in December.
“Since the passage of the First Step Act in December, I’ve been speaking with people coming home from prison and learning about the challenges they are facing,” she wrote on Twitter. “While I have been able to offer support to some of the individuals I have met, the obstacles to success are an everyday struggle for thousands and more needs to be done.”
She continued, “Today, I’m honored to be a part of the announcement that the administration and the private sector are stepping up to create opportunities for these men and women to succeed once home.”
Kim has been working hard to help free federal inmates who are looking for clemency from life or long sentences. She said it has been “magic” to “get the president’s support and see it come to fruition.”
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