In this episode, Alice Marie Johnson — minister, advocate, and proof that second chances can spark whole new lives — joins the Doc and the Block podcast to share how she rebuilt her future after more than two decades in prison for her role in a cocaine trafficking organization.
She walks through the heartbreak that sent her life off course: a divorce after 19 years of marriage and the tragic loss of her youngest son in a scooter accident at age 12. In the aftermath, she made a series of poor decisions that led her into a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization. In 1996, she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Behind bars, everything changed. Johnson became an ordained minister and a certified hospice worker. Her work, accomplishments, and conduct earned strong support from staff at FCI Aliceville.
A campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union pushed for her release, and in 2018, President Donald Trump granted her clemency and commuted her sentence.
Johnson’s story on the podcast is all about that journey back — and how she turned the hardest chapters of her life into something new.
Alice Marie Johnson: The Future can always be better (Part 1)
