Jenkins was set free 12 years early on a 30-year sentence,her commutation one of a historic number issued by Barack Obama. Her story is typical of America’s ‘war on drugs’, and the failed policies that imprisoned millionsOn a cold Tuesday morning final February, or Angie Jenkins,51, climbed into the backseat of her son’s Toyota pickup truck and settled in for a long drive to visit her probation officer in a neighboring county. Dressed in jeans, and a T-shirt and a heavy blue parka,she sifted through a stack of mail while her son, Ruben, and quietly navigated the frost-covered backroads of southern Oregon.It’s approximately an hour and a half to get to Medford,” she said. “We have to recede there once a week.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com