FIRST ON FOX: Kim and Khloé Kardashian walked right into a California jail Monday morning with a special aim in thoughts – guiding a gaggle of younger influencers via the American prison justice system.
“It’s at all times an honor to have the ability to go to the women and men dwelling behind our jail partitions,” Kardashian, a longtime prison justice reform advocate, mentioned Monday after spending a number of hours on the California State Jail of Los Angeles County in Lancaster with members of the REFORM Alliance, a gaggle that goals to assist ex-cons efficiently return to society, and various younger social media stars.
“Listening to the tales of individuals trapped within the jail system is what drives my dedication to advocate for reform and discover methods to leverage my platform to assist change lives and legal guidelines,” she mentioned of the go to, which started round 9:30 a.m.
In a proverbial generational shift, the social media and actuality TV celebrity mentioned the aim of the journey was to introduce a brand new group of Gen-Z influencer to key problems with prison justice and proposals for reform.
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Kim Kardashian, Michael Rubin and REFORM Alliance’s Future Shapers Advisory Council Go to California State Jail, Los Angeles County (REFORM Alliance)
They’re known as the Future Shapers Advisory Council, which was established in February and contains Hannah Jackson, Rondo Bonilla, Charli D’Amelio, Dixie D’Amelio, Sophia Kianni, CJ Stroud, Zander Moricz, Jack Wright, Bryce Younger, Jax Ajueny, and Aidan Kohn-Murphy.
Kardashian, for years a distinguished prison justice reform advocate, in 2018 famously lobbied then-President Trump for the discharge of Alice Johnson, who served 21 years in jail for a nonviolent offense.
Kim Kardashian, Michael Rubin and REFORM Alliance’s Future Shapers Advisory Council Go to California State Jail, Los Angeles County (REFORM Alliance)
“We’re build up the following technology of leaders and influencers who will be part of us on this battle,” she mentioned.
The jail’s inmate roster up to now has included Joseph Son, the previous “Austin Powers” actor who killed a cellmate whereas serving time for an additional crime, and the prolific serial assassin Samuel Little.
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Kardashian’s group heard the tales of a collection of incarcerated males, mentioned potential options for public security and rehabilitation, and visited with members of the jail’s PAWS For Life program, in response to the REFORM Alliance.
A jail spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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Kim and Khloe Kardashian pictured contained in the state jail in Lancaster, California, on Monday, April 17, 2023. (REFORM Alliance)
Others in attendance included California state Rep. Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, the rapper Lil Child, REFORM officers Jessica Jackson and Regulation Erin Haney, and Dixie, Heidi and Marc D’Amelio
FILE: Actuality TV character Kim Kardashian is invited to talk by U.S. President Donald Trump throughout an occasion celebrating the second probability hiring re-entry program for former, inmates on the White Home in Washington, U.S., June 13, 2019. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Kardashian was an outspoken supporter of the First Step Act, a bipartisan prison justice reform invoice that Trump signed in 2018.
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A bunch of Gen-Z influencers led by social media and actuality star Kim Kardashian meets with inmates that the California state jail in Lancaster. (REFORM Alliance)
And she or he has hosted a podcast on the topic, “Kim Kardashian’s The System,” and has made visits to jails and prisons across the nation.
For years, she’s visited inmates across the nation, together with former Oklahoma demise row resident Julius Jones in jail roughly a yr earlier than Gov. Kevin Stitt granted him clemency in 2021, commuting his sentence to life with out parole.
Kim Kardashian, Michael Rubin and REFORM Alliance’s Future Shapers Advisory Council Go to California State Jail, Los Angeles County. They met with members of the jail’s PAWS For Life program as a part of the tour. (REFORM Alliance)
And in 2020, she partnered with Oxygen for a two-hour documentary titled “Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Venture,” during which she revealed she hoped to turn into a lawyer.
After leaving the state jail in Lancaster, the group stopped for lunch at La Papillon, a steakhouse and seafood restaurant which generally would not open till 4 p.m.
Kim Kardashian speaks to the Future Shapers Advisory Council and members of the REFORM Alliance at La Papillon, a steakhouse and seafood restaurant in Lancaster, California. (REFORM Alliance)
Kim Kardashian, middle, poses with a number of of the inmates her group met with in a Lancaster, California, jail Monday. (REFORM Alliance)
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The menu, lauded by Yelp customers, contains choices of filet mignon for $45 or macadamia crusted Chilean sea bass for $20 extra.
