NewzPatrick Dewayne Smith, a man who served 13 years in federal prison on drug charges, faces the prospect of returning to prison for life following a United States Supreme Court ruling regarding the First Step Act.
Two years after his release, Smith has been working two jobs, spending time with his family, and rebuilding his life in rural Tennessee. The Supreme Court ruling threatens this post-incarceration rehabilitation, placing him at risk of lifelong imprisonment under the legal interpretations surrounding the bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation.
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