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KimandKhloé Kardashianare working to help foster a new group of criminal justice reform leaders.
On Monday, the Kardashian sisters teamed up with Michael Rubin and REFORM Alliance’s Future Shapers Advisory Council to visit Los Angeles County’s California State Prison in an effort to speak with incarcerated individuals and learn more about their experiences.
“It’s always an honor to be able to visit the men and women living behind our prison walls,” Kim, 42, said after the visit.
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“Hearing the stories of people trapped in the prison system is what drives my commitment to advocate for reform and find ways to leverage my platform to help change lives and laws. Today I was especially thrilled to bring REFORM’s Future Shapers Advisory Council inside the prison as well. We are building up the next generation of leaders and influencers who will join us in this fight,” she added.
In February, the advocacy group founded the Future Shapers Advisory Council to bring a younger generation of advocates into the criminal justice reform movement.
Members from the council includingJack Wright, andDixie D’Amelio, were present during Monday’s visit as part of the cohort’s first engagements as members of the council.
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Kim has been working to help inmates who were given too harsh a prison sentence seek clemency since embarking on a journey to earn her law degree.
She opened up about her passion for criminal justice reform in an interview withVogueafter starting afour-year apprenticeship with a law firmin San Francisco in 2019. “I had to think long and hard about this,” she said.
“I never in a million years thought we would get to the point of gettinglawspassed,” she said. “That was really a turning point for me.”
source: people.com
