Since he was given a life sentence in 2008, Jessie Traylor has received his GED. He’s completed classes in business development, Spanish and sports officiating and also attends a culinary arts program two hours a day, five days a week.
With all his appeals exhausted, Traylor lives as if he might some day make it outside prison walls.
That audacious hope has a chance to be rewarded in the next month.
Thanks to a new project and unparalleled action from President Barack Obama, the father of former Kansas basketball forward Jamari Traylor has filed a petition for clemency — which includes letters from himself, Jamari, KU coach Bill Self and judge Michael McCuskey — to the United States Department of Justice.