American criminal justice reformer and former federal prisoner Alice Marie Johnson was given a life sentence after being found guilty in 1996 of being a part of a Memphis cocaine trafficking conspiracy. She was released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville, in June 2018 after serving 21 years in jail after the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, used his executive authority to grant clemency and commute her sentence, which became effective right away. After serving her time at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, a federal prison hospital in Texas, where she became certified as a hospice nurse, she was moved to FCI Aliceville to be closer to her family, according to a memoir she wrote after she got out. Staff personnel at FCI Aliceville filed statements in support of Johnson's mercy request stating that she did not violate any rules while she was incarcerated there. Johnson took part in a pilot project that Sally Yates, the deputy attorney general, started in 2016 to give some female federal prisoners access to videoconferencing. Her video interview with the online site Mic, which was made possible by the initiative, went viral and made her case widely known. While she was incarcerated, she spoke at Yale, Hunter College, and other venues using Skype. She studied to become a preacher while she was in jail, and she thought that God let her out of jail. Since then, Johnson has become a supporter of American criminal justice reform. She often talks about her own experience when she does this. In July 2018, one month after her release, she demanded an end to mandatory sentence. In September 2019, she talked to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee about problems with the cash bail system, pushed for more access to expungement and prisoner education, and worked to lower barriers to readmission. Johnson also wants women's views to be part of the discussion about how to change the criminal justice system..

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