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Jason Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison in 1998, after he was caught dealing methamphetamines and crack cocaine at the age of 21. After serving 17 years of his life sentence, he was granted a second chance at life.

Former Drug Dealer Granted Clemency Says President Obama Saved His Life

“I was practically a dead man walking and President Obama gave me my life back,” Hernandez said in an interview with KFOR News. “I see him like a father now. Like any son, you want to make your father proud, and that’s what my aim is.”

After filing his own eight-page clemency application, U.S. President Obama commuted Jason Hernandez’s sentence to 20 years in 2013. And today, Mr. Hernandez works as a mentor for juvenile offenders in the kitchen at Cafe Momentum, a restaurant for youthful offenders. He’s using his circumstance to help preclude young people from making similar mistakes as he did, hoping to help hundreds to thousands of lives. In addition, Mr. Hernandez has a second job as a wielder.

Plus, he has an activist organization called Crackopenthedoor.org, which fights for inmates who were sentenced to life without parole for nonviolent drug crimes.

Here is a great example of how people can change their lives towards conducive contributions for society.

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“I hope one of these days when they ask the president about his greatest decisions. When he names the Affordable Care Act and the other accomplishments. that he also says, ‘You know what? The clemency initiative and that Mexican kid, Jason Hernandez. I’m glad I let him out because he has done so much for the community.’ That’s how I live my life. I want to make him very very proud of me.”

There’s a synergistic flow moving across the country, and the clemency initiative is one of the causes of it. Just last week in Oklahoma, Governor Mary Fallin proposed a plan for steps towards reducing their prison population. The dignitary and some district attorneys want to use this proposal as a starting point for solving this problem.

Back in June, I covered a story about various political groups gathering at the house of representatives to talk prison reform. CHECK IT OUT BY CLICKING THIS LINK RIGHT HERE
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And, here’s the interview with Mr. Hernandez

SOURCE: KFOR