Whitey Ford
12-21-2020, 06:04 PM
Louisiana man serving life sentence for $20 worth of marijuana released
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Fate Winslow said the first thing he wants to do when he gets back home to Shreveport is stop at Popeye’s for fried chicken.
And following his joyful release from Angola state prison Wednesday after serving 12 years over $20 worth of marijuana, Winslow, 53, said his next stop is the most important: Reuniting with his four children and three grandchildren who thought they may never see him again as a free man.
“I was so happy to get out,” Winslow told WWL-TV while getting a ride home after walking out of the prison. “A life sentence for two bags of weed? I never thought something like that could happen.”
Winslow’s distribution of marijuana conviction led to a sentence of life without parole as a multiple offender. But the small amount of weed and circumstances of arrest put him in the national spotlight as a poster child for over-incarceration and racial injustice. Winslow is black.
In 2008, Winslow was homeless on the streets of Shreveport when an undercover police officer asked if Winslow knew where he could buy some marijuana.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/crime/louisiana-man-serving-life-sentence-for-marijuana-released-after-12-years/289-9544d556-6ff0-424c-aca0-125096635460
https://i.imgur.com/y4K3czW.jpg
Fate Winslow said the first thing he wants to do when he gets back home to Shreveport is stop at Popeye’s for fried chicken.
And following his joyful release from Angola state prison Wednesday after serving 12 years over $20 worth of marijuana, Winslow, 53, said his next stop is the most important: Reuniting with his four children and three grandchildren who thought they may never see him again as a free man.
“I was so happy to get out,” Winslow told WWL-TV while getting a ride home after walking out of the prison. “A life sentence for two bags of weed? I never thought something like that could happen.”
Winslow’s distribution of marijuana conviction led to a sentence of life without parole as a multiple offender. But the small amount of weed and circumstances of arrest put him in the national spotlight as a poster child for over-incarceration and racial injustice. Winslow is black.
In 2008, Winslow was homeless on the streets of Shreveport when an undercover police officer asked if Winslow knew where he could buy some marijuana.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/crime/louisiana-man-serving-life-sentence-for-marijuana-released-after-12-years/289-9544d556-6ff0-424c-aca0-125096635460