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Kim Kardashian quietly helped free a large group of prison inmates

ROLLINGOUT.COM — The reality TV mogul and key component of the 10-year-old blockbuster series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” has been secretly financing operations that have led to securing the freedom of a large group of prison inmates who were serving life sentences for low-level drug convictions.

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6 years ago

May 10, 2019

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By Terry Shropshire

Kim Kardashian West, who has until now been known mostly famous for porn tapes, naked photos and plastic surgery, has been undergoing a metamorphosis of her image.

Terry Shropshire

The reality TV mogul and key component of the 10-year-old blockbuster series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” has been secretly financing operations that have led to securing the freedom of a large group of prison inmates who were serving life sentences for low-level drug convictions.

Kardashian’s money has helped legal advocates and justice reform proponents secure the freedom of 17 prisoners in the last 90 days, TMZ has learned. All of the former inmates were serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.

The operation is called the “90 Days of Freedom” campaign and was launched by Kardashian’s personal attorney, Brittany K. Barnett. She has teamed up with lawyer MiAngel Cody of The Decarceration Collective. This is all part of the First Step Act, which Kardashian convinced the president to sign in 2018. The First Step Act works to release prisoners who were serving exorbitantly-long prison sentences that were out of proportion to the crimes committed.

Here are a few examples of the folks the “90 Days of Freedom” program has been able to free, according to TMZ:

Jamelle Carraway, is free and living in Chicago after serving 11 years of a life sentence for cocaine possession;
Eric Balcom is in Florida for the first time in 16 years.
Terrence Byrd, 50, is now free after serving half of his life in prison.

According to the publication, Kardashian and the lawyers she’s teamed up with have several more cases they are working on.

This article originally appeared in Rollingout.com.

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Alameda County Judge Blasts Defendants Over Delay in West Oakland Fire Trial

Judge Kimberly Lowell excoriated the RadiusRecycling/SchnitzerSteel defendants in court for causing delays in prosecuting this case. Since the defendants first appeared in court on July 23, they have obtained three extensions of the arraignment date.

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Criminal charges announced this week are related to the August 2023 scrap metal fire at Radius Recycling Inc., formerly Schnitzer Steel. Photo courtesy of Oaklandside.

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District Attorney Pamela Price announced that a hearing was held on October 30 in the criminal prosecution of the Radius Recycling/Schnitzer Steel involving a fire at the West Oakland facility on Aug. 9-10, 2023.

The Alameda County criminal Grand Jury indicted radius Recycling and two of its corporate managers in June 2024.

The court clarified that the defendants will not receive more extensions on their arraignment and plea.

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price agreed with the court that defendants should not get preferential treatment. Price and her team appreciated the court for clarifying that future delays by Radius will not be tolerated.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s (BAAQMD) public data shows that during and after the fire, the smoke plume traveled across Alameda County with high levels of PM 2.5 (Particulate Matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter) detected around Laney College in Oakland, Livermore, Pleasanton, and West Oakland.

PM2.5 is particularly harmful to infants and children, the elderly, and people with asthma or heart disease.

“This fire posed a great health hazard to the people of Alameda County,” said Price. “High, short-term exposures to a toxic smoke plume have been shown to cause significant danger to human health.

“Additionally, in this case, Oakland firefighters battled the blaze under extremely dangerous conditions for 15 hours with assistance from a San Francisco Fire Department fireboat and a fireboat from the City of Alameda Fire Department,” Price observed.

The team prosecuting the case from the DA’s Consumer Justice Bureau looks forward to resolving any future motions and having the defendants arraigned in court on Dec. 9.

The media relations office of the Alameda County District Attorney’s office is the source of this report.