*This is a repost of an article I wrote for vocativ.com
WASHINGTON — In light of President Obama’s work to stem over-incarceration, Congressmember Karen Bass (D-Calf.), a member of the House Judiciary…
I met Michael Santos in prison for the first time at FCC Fort Dix, shortly after I got transferred there in 1999. I had a similar case to his, we were both drug dealers, and we were both sentenced to multiple decades of imprisonement in…
On August 13, 1987, DEA agents arrested me. I started selling cocaine when I was 20, and by the time I turned 23, the run ended. At the time of my arrest, all I cared about was getting out of jail. Yet after a jury convicted me of…
