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POLITICS● ELEVATED6d ago · Oct 11, 2026, 11:36 AM

A freed man faces life back in prison after a Supreme Court ruling on the First Step Act

winnipegfreepress · canada · north america

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after his release from prison, Patrick Dewayne Smith spends Sundays with his family in a modest brick church with a white steeple in rural Tennessee. He works two jobs. He goes to ball games to cheer for nieces and nephews he had never met. After serving 13 years for a nonviolent drug conviction, he is trying to rebuild his life.

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