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Julie and Todd Chrisley obtained federal pardons this week as a part of Donald Trump’s current blitz of releasing criminals from jail.
After serving two years and a few change of his large 12-year sentence on fraud and conspiracy, Todd is free.
Daughter Savannah Chrisley was excited to share the information.
She couldn’t assist however gush over her father’s alleged “jacked” post-prison physique.
Todd Chrisley is out of jail and is now ‘jacked’
Late on Wednesday, Could 28, Savannah Chrisley took to her Instagram Story to specific her happiness in a video.
Todd Chrisley had been launched from the Federal Jail Camp in Pensacola, Florida.
Her Story movies confirmed the experience dwelling to Nashville, Tennessee.
Throughout the Story video, Savannah asks her father: “What are you trying to get me to do?”
Todd proffers his arm, inviting her: “Feel that muscle.”
Savannah places her hand on his higher arm, saying:
“Y’all, I’m not gonna lie, it’s hard. It’s hard. Jacked.”
Julie can be free
Like Todd, Julie can be now not in jail. She had been serving on the Federal Medical Heart in Lexington, Kentucky.
Todd’s sentence had been for 12 years. Julie’s had been for 7.
Now that Trump has pardoned them as a part of a battery of pardons to individuals who financially or in any other case assist him, the Chrisleys should not solely out of jail, however now not need to pay restitution to their victims.
As we now have mentioned, these had been significantly harsh sentences for non-violent crimes.
Doing issues like defrauding a financial institution to take out large loans is completely immoral and against the law, however spending most of — or greater than — a decade in jail appeared extreme.
In fact, the simply answer wouldn’t have been a pardon. Government clemency additionally permits a president to commute federal sentences.
The pardon reverses righteous convictions alongside probably extreme sentences.
Is there a silver lining to this?
Along with allegedly getting swole or no matter Todd Chrisley appeared to do in jail, he did increase the alarm concerning the inhumane circumstances behind bars.
One has to contemplate that, if the “nice” federal jail the place a wealthy white movie star serves his sentence for white collar crimes is such an terrible place, different amenities may be worse.
No matter we consider their sentence, Todd and Julie Chrisley have made it abundantly clear that they’re not good individuals.
Their pardon is a case of 1 legal liberating one other.
That doesn’t change the significance of jail reform.
As a society, we must always design jail amenities as we’d if we knew that harmless individuals could be imprisoned there. (And we do know that)
Todd and Julie aren’t harmless, however they’re out anyway.
And so they carry with them reminiscences of injustices and hardships confronted inside our nation’s carceral system.
We’d like to see them proceed to advocate for improved jail circumstances, maybe on the household’s new actuality collection. However we’re not likely optimistic sufficient to hope that one thing good may occur. Not in 2025.
