Advocates push for Biden to use his executive powers to grant clemency for hundreds of women in federal prisons
Miquelle West was 10 when she learned the harsh realities about the criminal justice system as her mother was handed two life sentences plus 50 years in a federal lockup for a conspiracy drugs case that was connected to a murder.
“My mom has been in prison since 1992 and she was a first-time offender … I’ve been working my whole life to help my mom get a second opportunity because she shouldn’t have served so many years for a crime that she actually did not commit,” West, now 38, told CNN about her mother Michelle West.