After two years of rebuilding his life, Patrick Dewayne Smith may go back to prison. He was in jail for 13 years due to a nonviolent drug conviction and was released in 2024 thanks to the First Step Act, a criminal justice law. But a recent Supreme Court decision puts the 47-year-old’s second chance at risk; the court ruling in May stated that people sentenced under older laws can’t use current sentencing differences to ask for early release.
“Every time I get a call, I’m hoping it’s some good news. Or, you know, at least not no bad news,” Smith told the Associated Press…