Kim Kardashian takes her passion for prison reform to another level by executively producing a two-hour documentary special, Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project. Although people use to see the 39-year-old star as a television personality in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, her mentor, Erin Haney, believes everyone needs to see a new version of her in this program.
The documentary features the journey of Kanye West's wife to help four inmates, who she believes are wrongfully sentenced. One of them is a young mom who got convicted of 30 years in prison without parole for, allegedly, killing her step-father, who she claimed molested her. Another one is a 15-year-old sex trafficking victim, who received a minimum of a 21-year sentence as prosecutors argued she was responsible for her pimp's murder.
Haney said that these are the reasons why people should watch The Justice Project. Although Kim Kardashian's fans are not interested in criminal justice reform, she commended that Oxygen did an incredible job of making the inmates' stories compelling and accurate.
"Part of what you get when you watch something like this is they are riveting stories [that are] almost like a mystery," Haney told Hollywood Life. "Because you're starting with this headline and with this conviction that tells you that one thing happened."
The attorney, who is mentoring Kim Kardashian to be a lawyer herself, explained that justice means that there is a wrong person who did a bad thing that has to be behind bars. However, in The Justice Project, the KKW Beauty owner studies this usual practice piece by piece and deconstruct everything it to see that there is more happening in their cases than it was supposed to be.
Haney continued to say that the solution to solve these inmates' problems is not what justice looks like in their situation. It is the counter-narrative to the several crime shows that are usually seen on TV to the number of headlines that people read.
According to Page Six, Kim Kardashian was seen filming The Justice Project at the DC Correctional Treatment Facility in Washington in July. She has been studying to become a lawyer and is currently completing her apprenticeship in a law firm in San Francisco.
She is now making a name as a criminal justice campaigner, who is trying to help people who she thinks have been wrongfully accused, unfairly incarcerated, and got overly harsh sentences. Kim Kardashian's interest in this matter, reportedly, began when she read the case of Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who received a life sentence for a non-violent drug offense, in 2018.
