Comments by "Tammy Irwin" (@tammyirwin703) on "'I've Been Working On Myself': Kayla Montgomery Addresses Parole Board" video.

@dukedematteo1995 I don’t know what planet you’re on but there have been drug dealers that have been sentenced to 20+ years for selling marijuana
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@lisadahlquist9501 but they don’t give you benzos in jail or prison
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@Littleangel_-jp4xb and never once did I say he sold one little baggie at a time you need to learn how to read and comprehend because I’ve always said it was 3 pounds to a police informant
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@melissarandazzo1515 you’re giving her way too much credit saying 90 days I give her a month and she’ll test dirty when she has to go in and see her parole officer
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@Littleangel_-jp4xb FLINT, MI — After serving 25 years behind bars, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has granted Michael Thompson's request for clemency. Thompson, 69, is serving a 42- to 62-year sentence after he was convicted of selling three pounds of marijuana to an undercover informant in December 1994. On Tuesday,
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@Littleangel_-jp4xb Thompson, 71, is a Flint, Michigan Native and criminal justice reform activist. He served a 25 year life sentence for cannabis offenses and was released in January 2021. Today, he works alongside nonprofits, Last Prisoner Project and The Michael Thompson Clemency project to help prison reform.
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This was his original sentence MICHAEL THOMPSON IS serving a 40- to 60-year sentence in Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan. He’s already spent a quarter of a century in prison. His father, mother, and his only son have died in the time he’s been behind bars. His mom’s final wish — which she told his nephew, Sheldon Neeley — was that Thompson wouldn’t die in prison. He’s 68. He felt ashamed at his mother’s funeral because he had to wear handcuffs.
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How many prisoners are serving life sentences for pot? At least 69, based on data collected by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations. But that figure probably is low, particularly if you count older inmates serving lengthy sentences who will likely die in prison. Federal judges have sentenced 54 people to life without parole for marijuana crimes since 1996, according to the Clemency Report. Solid numbers are hard to find. “Incarceration data for cannabis-only-related offenses is the holy grail of criminal-justice data for cannabis law reformers,” says Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, who has filed dozens of requests for this information. “All the time it seems like I learn of another one that I’d never heard of before,” says Cheri Sicard, vice president of the CAN-DO Foundation, an advocacy group for nonviolent drug offenders.
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@Littleangel_-jp4xb Executing search warrants at homes in Flint and Grand Blanc after he was arrested, police found more than a dozen guns which led to felony firearm charges as he was a convicted felon. Michigan Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, called the Whitmer’s decisions tremendous news for Thompson, his friends and family. “It’s hard to stomach that a man who was booked on drug charges in the nineties could still be incarcerated in 2020, by a state that had since legalized the use of recreational marijuana,” Ananich said. “He is now an elderly man and has grandchildren he’d like to spend time with. I, along with thousands of people who were shocked by Mr. Thompson’s absurdly long sentence, have petitioned the governor’s office on his behalf and we applaud her for doing the right thing by granting him clemency.” his wife even testified that those were her guns however, because he had been convicted before for drug charges that’s why the firearm charges came to be not because he had guns in his possession when he sold that 3 pounds of marijuana
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@Littleangel_-jp4xb Thompson was sent to prison to serve a 42- to 62-year sentence after he was convicted in 1996 of selling three pounds of marijuana to an undercover informant in December 1994. That was his original sentence. The only reason he got it out after 25 years was because he got clemency. If that wouldn’t have happened he would still be there my point is he was still sentenced to that much for 3 pounds of marijuana.
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@Littleangel_-jp4xb why don’t you go look up all the people that have been sentenced to 40+ years for marijuana that didn’t include any violence, then come back and talk to me and I’m not talking about like this case where he eventually got clemency I’m talking what they’re actual sentence was before they ever got clemency because people that sold marijuana were given hefty hefty sentences back in the day more than people for murder
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@tashastakeonlife4733 that very well could be, but they don’t consider Seroquel a benzo
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@shadow8276 I agree, 1,000,000% however judges and district attorneys and all governmental agencies have this bullshit thing called government immunity.
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