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Saturday, June 10, 2017

Obama granted her clemency. Less than a year later, she’s going back to prison.

A Houston-area woman who was given a second chance at freedom by President Barack Obama in 2016 has been ordered to return to federal prison after violating the terms of her supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas said Thursday.

Texas City resident Carol Denise Richardson, 49, was originally convicted in 2006 for “conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine as well as two counts of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base.” At the time, U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison sentenced her to life in federal prison, noting that she had an extensive criminal history.

Richardson had already served about a decade of her life sentence when she received a reprieve last year: She was being granted clemency by Obama under an agreement that her release would be supervised for 10 years.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Won't be the last one.

Anonymous said...

"The system has failed Carol"! BS, Carol has failed the system!!!

Anonymous said...

The failed so called leader has failed America and should hold up in a cell also. Not a good feeling knowing he is loose.