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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Lindsay Whitehurst

Man freed by First Step Act faces life in prison for nonviolent drug offense after SCOTUS ruling

Two years after being freed from federal custody, Patrick Dewayne Smith spends his Sundays surrounded by relatives in a modest brick church topped with a white steeple in rural Tennessee.

Balancing two jobs, he regularly attends youth ball games to support nieces and nephews he never got the chance to know earlier.

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