CALABASAS, CA. (THECOUNT) — Reality superstar, Kim Kardashian, has helped free 17 inmates, and counting, and has done so behind the scene and “rather quietly,” said TMZ on Tuesday. But now the lawyers doing the actual groundwork on the early release cases are getting their turn in the spotlight.
“We need Kim’s support and the support of anyone else who wants to join this fight,” said Brittany K. Barnett, one of two lawyers that did a majority of all the heavy lifting. “We love that she [Kardashian] is using her platform to raise awareness. We ain’t trying to be famous, we trying to get our people free. Period,” reports AtlantaBlackStar.
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Kardashian has been making recent headlines after reports surfaced claiming she was the one responsible for freeing 17 inmates in 90 days. But now some say she failed to highlight the black female lawyers doing the work behind the scenes.
Our report on Tuesday cited a passage from the breaking TMZ article which did mention Barnett and MiAngel Cody in fair detail:
“Barnett, who along with fellow Black woman lawyer MiAngel Cody, established the 90 Days of Freedom Campaign, posted a lengthy post on Facebook that set the record straight. Kardashian is involved in the project, having financially backed it, but Cody and Barnett have been putting in the groundwork to free 17 men who had been serving life in prison on federal drug cases.”
Jamelle Carraway is back with his family after serving 11 years of a life sentence in federal prison.
Eric Balcom is back home in Florida, and seeing his mother for the first time in 16 years after serving hard time in federal prison.
Terrence Byrd is finally free after spending half his life — 25 years — in federal prison on drug possession charges. We’re told he’s been reunited with his 96-year-old grandmother, the woman who raised him.