Jesse Webster (born in 1969) is an American former prison inmate who was sentenced to life without parole for charges of drug trafficking and tax fraud.
He received significant media attention at the end of 2013 after the ACLU published a report discussing life sentences for nonviolent offenses.
[not verified in body] A native of the South Side, Chicago, Illinois, Webster began a job at a local carwash as a teenager, first after school and on weekends, and then full-time.
[2] Webster filed a petition in 2013 to commute his sentence, with letters of recommendation from his judge, James Zagel, and both his prosecutors.
Webster worked with his lawyer, Jessica Ring Amunson to get his sentence commuted by President Barack Obama.