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Woman gets chance to thank Kim Kardashian West for her freedom

Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender whose life sentence was commuted after 21 years in prison, got a chance to personally thank Kim Kardashian West on Wednesday for pleading her case to the White House, according to a source familiar with their meeting.

Blagojevich officially asks Trump to commute his sentence

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is officially asking President Donald Trump to commute his prison sentence, filing the clemency paperwork on Tuesday, a spokesman for Blagojevich's legal team, Adam Farragut, confirmed to CNN.

Trump issues his first commutation

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of a man eight years into a 27-year term for bank fraud, the White House said Wednesday afternoon.