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President William J. Clinton
August 22, 2000
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now completed one year of college in which he made the Dean's List in both the Fall and Spring
semesters
(b)(6)
It is Mr. Willis' goal to receive a degree in
[002]
business.
The most important rehabilitative accomplishment Mr. Willis has made is his participation
in the Youth Awareness Program. The Youth Awareness Program permits inmates to leave the
prison camp and speak to kids in the community who are the most susceptible to being involved with
drugs. In the last year alone, Mr. Willis has made 20 different presentations. I understand that in
Mr. Willis' presentation to the kids, he tells them the following:
when he was a kid involved with drugs he only thought about the material things that
he was able to obtain, but never thought about how his actions were responsible for
destroying his own community;
how as a kid he naively rationalized his drug involvement as being acceptable
because he was not forcing anyone to buy the drugs;
once you become involved with drugs there are only two ways that you will likely
stop, either by imprisonment or by death;
criminals like himself must take complete responsibility for the choices they make
in life and cannot continue to blame their imprisonment on poverty, lack of
education, broken families and/or racial discrimination.
I understand that Mr. Willis, upon his release from incarceration, plans to continue speaking with
kids about the dangers of being involved with drugs.
Accordingly, based on the unfairness of the mandatory-minimum sentencing guidelines as
they were applied to Mr. Willis, in conjunction with his significant rehabilitative accomplishments
while incarcerated, I respectfully request that you grant Mr. Willis' Petition for Commutation of
Sentence.
C.
The Poor Health Of Mr. Willis' Mother
This past June I received a letter from the Willis family requesting that I contact the Federal
Bureau of Prisons' on Mr. Willis' behalf to ask them if Mr. Willis could visit his mother in the
hospital.
(b)(6)
(b)(6)
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