“Gram” Sherry Johnston,  missing penis pinup boy Levi Johnston’s problematic mom, has been sentenced to three years in Alaska’s only women’s prison on one count of trafficking in narcotics. Her attorney Rex Butler, who also reps Levi for his PR and income generating campaigns, put a timely spin on Mrs. Johnston’s sale of Oxycontin to an undercover officer, according to the Anchorage Daily News:

In a phone interview after the sentencing, Butler called his client “a poster child for health care reform.” He said his client was selling some of the drugs to get money to pay for other pain medications that her insurance company was cutting her off from. He would not identify her insurance company.

Butler is hoping to get Johnston–who has said she suffers from chronic pelvic pain stemming from past surgeries–out of prison and on an ankle-monitoring program for her three-year sentence so she could serve her time under house arrest in her home in Wasilla.

Her paparazzi fodder Playgirl model son Levi was present  for the sentencing which took place in Palmer, Alaska.

Gram Sherry’s lawyer Butler is right: Pain management should not be curtailed by insurance companies.  And you sort of have to figure some of  the payout for Levi’s body waxed cheesecake shots went to cover his mom’s legal expenses.