Kardashian wins freedom for prisoner

A WOMAN who has spent 21 years in prison for a non-violent drug offence has been pardoned by Donald Trump on the urging of Kim Kardashian West.

Alice Marie Johnson, 63, from Tennessee, was sentenced in 1996 to life without parole for cocaine trafficking in what was her first offence.

Kardashian West read about her case in October and took up her cause, travelling to the White House on May 30 to plead her case before the US president.

Yesterday, the White House announced the great-grandmother will be released from federal prison in Aliceville, Alabama. “Best news ever!” the reality TV star tweeted in response.

Johnson was arrested in 1993 after working with a group that transported cocaine. She said she got involved after hitting rock bottom in her personal life: a divorce, a bankruptcy that led her to lose her house and her youngest son dying in a motorcycle accident.