FROM FEDERAL PRISONER TO GEORGIA LAWYER: CLEMENCY RECIPIENT SERENA NUNN SHOWS THE VALUE OF SECOND CHANCES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  DATE: November 3, 2012 CONTACT: Monica Pratt Raffanel, media@famm.org ATLANTA – When she was 19 years-old, Serena Nunn was arrested and later convicted as a minor participant in a drug conspiracy and received a 15-year federal mandatory minimum prison sentence, despite being a first-time, nonviolent offender.  In 2000, after serving 11 years behind bars, Serena’s sentence was commuted by President William J. Clinton and she was given a rare second chance at freedom. The governor of Minnesota, where Serena had been raised, and the sentencing judge, supported