President Obama was convinced that non-violent drug offenders received legal penalties that were way too harsh. With that philosophy in mind, he granted some of them clemency. But one crack-addicted woman given such a gift squandered hers and is headed back to prison because she became once again addicted to crack cocaine.

From The Washington Post:

Carol Denise Richardson was sentenced to life in prison in 2006. Her crime? Possessing 50 grams or more of cocaine. Prosecutors said she intended to distribute the drugs. But what she had was crack cocaine and, like many in prison, she claimed the chunks of cocaine were to feed her own addiction — that she had no intention to share or sell them.

When Barack Obama was president, he agreed with criminal justice reform advocates who argued current laws unjustly treated those found with crack cocaine the same as those caught with more expensive, but less bulky, pure form of powder cocaine. Since prosecution and sentencing standards are based on weight, a handful of rocks of crack could result in much harsher punishment.

Based on this argument, Obama chose to grant clemency to a record number of prisoners who had committed nonviolent drug-related offenses. In 2016, Richardson became one of them. But now, she has been ordered to return to federal prison after violating the terms of her supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas said Thursday.

Richardson, 49, served 10 years of her life sentence before being released. That is, she was off the smack for a decade. But the addiction laid dormant and she was back to breaking the law to score her next high. She stole $60 worth of laundry detergent she intended to sell for drug money, according to her attorney, and he blames her renewed addiction as to why she violated her probation and hid herself from authorities. 

U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison, the same judge who sentenced her to life, presided over her once again and told Richardson of his disappointment that she would waste “the extremely rare opportunity she was given.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ted Imperato said in a statement:

This defendant was literally given a second chance to become a productive member of society and has wasted it. She has clearly shown a willful disregard for the law and must face the consequences for her crimes and actions.

Supporters of Obama’s legal philosophies continue to claim the system failed Richardson and allowed her drug addiction to go untreated. However, Richardson willfully skipped out on treatments scheduled for her on the outside due to her fall back into a life on drugs.

Richardson is now heading back to prison for 14 months and after that, will be released under supervision for five years, because that worked so well the first time around.