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

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

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