Exclusive! One on One with Mother of Garrison Twins

I sat down Tuesday afternoon with Karen Garrison, mother of Lawrence and Lamont-the Howard University graduates who are serving a combined 35 years on crack cocaine charges- crimes they insist--they never committed. The Garrison's claim their names were thrown into a drug conspiracy by a drug dealer turned FBI informant who was merely trying to get his own time reduced.(He served 36 months)

Karen Garrison for the past five years has been on staff at the non profit Families Against Mandatory Minimums organization in DC., where she has become an activist for her sons and others serving lengthy terms due to the disparities between crack sentences and powdered cocaine sentences.

The Democratic controlled Congress recently approved a bill that reduces that disparity, although crack sentences are still much longer; Garrison, last Friday filed papers in Alexandria Federal court that asks the judge to modify the sentences of Lawrence and Lamont..meaning one of her boys could be home within a year, the other would be released four years earlier than his original release date. Lamont got additional time for taking the stand during their trial to process his innocence.


Click here to watch Bruce's Interview With Karen Garrison.