Kwame Kilpatrick (Screenshot from WDIV video)
Kwame Kilpatrick (Photo: WDIV screenshot)
Kwame Kilpatrick knows about getting a break in prison. Sentenced in 2013 to 28 years, he was freed in January 2020 by Donald Trump.
On Sunday, the politician-turned-felon-turned-preacher, came to New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Pontiac to push for sentence reductions and reform of Michigan's criminal justice system, The Detroit News reports.
Kilpatrick, the 51-year-old past Detroit mayor, lives in Georgia and this year launched a virtual outreach called Movemental Ministries. He encouraged congregants on Sunday to sign a "Good Time" state ballot initiative on Redemption Sunday, which churches across Metro Detroit celebrated.
The initiative would give inmates the chance to reduce sentences through productive activity in prison such as college classes, anger management counseling, substance abuse rehabilitation and credit for being a veteran.
At a March press conference, he pushed for the Good Time initiative and educational and vocational programs in Michigan prisons.
