What Is the #ClemencyWorks Campaign?

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Mar 8, 2021

On Inauguration Day, The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls announced a new initiative under the Clemency Works hashtag calling for the Biden Administration to grant clemency to 100 women in the first 100 days of the presidency. Andrea James, founder and executive director of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and Danielle Metz, to whom former President Barack Obama granted clemency in 2016, join us to discuss the campaign.

 

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