Kim Kardashian West reportedly paid a visit to the District of Columbia Correctional Treatment Facility on Tuesday and was seen posing with an inmate for a picture during her time at the premises.
WAMU reported that a spokesman from the D.C. Department of Corrections confirmed the media personality-turned-businesswoman visit. However, the purpose of her visit was not stated.
Kardashian West has been recently championing reform in the criminal-justice system.
Halim Flowers, an activist recently released from prison, where he spent 22 years after being convicted as a teenager, posted a picture of the celebrity standing next to a federal inmate on Instagram.
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“With my brothers @kpahaye and @mccraneykareem teaching our sister @kimkardashian about the @guprisonjustice with my professor @marcmhoward about the atrocity of putting children in cages for life sentences and the power of higher education programs in jails and prisons,” Flowers said in his caption for the picture.
Kardashian West’s visit to the Young Men Emerging unit was related to a documentary planned for the Oxygen Network, according to WAMU. The documentary will be centering around her activism about America’s criminal justice issues.
Kardashian West’s efforts in the field first came under the spotlight in 2018 when she spoke with President Donald Trump to request leniency for Alice Marie Johnson. The woman who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 for drug trafficking was released in June.