Cory Booker: It’s time for the next step in criminal justice reform

Cory Booker: It’s time for the next step in criminal justice reform
Washington Post
3/10/19

Edward Douglas woke up on Jan. 10, 2019, in a federal penitentiary in Pekin, Ill., where he had spent every morning of the past 15 years of his life. He was serving a lifetime sentence for selling 140 grams of crack cocaine — an amount about the size of a baseball.

It seemed like any other day until, at 10:30 a.m., a guard came into Douglas’s cell and told him he needed to call his lawyer. A few minutes later, he reached his lawyer, who informed him that, thanks to a new law, he would be a free man in a matter of hours. Douglas started sobbing.
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“I don’t know what to say,” Douglas said through tears. “I’ll be glad to see my mom and my kids.”

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