Legalizing marijuana may become a real situation in the near future, but until then, the U.S. has been releasing inmates who were locked up for non-violent drug crimes. Now, news surfaced noting a 71-year-old man named Richard DeLisi was released after serving 31 years in the South Bay Correctional Facility in Palm Beach County, Florida.
DeLisi was released from prison this past Tuesday, according to CNN. The former prisoner was locked up in 1989 and was convicted for charges of cannabis trafficking, racketeering, and conspiracy charges, which got him sentenced to 90 years in prison after he reportedly smuggled over 100 pounds of weed in Florida from Colombia.
According to the Last Prisoner Project, DeLisi was the United States’ longest-serving non-violent cannabis prisoner. Despite a push from the Last Prisoner Project, the Florida Department of Corrections noted that DeLisi’s pushed up release date wasn’t “related to any action by an outside party.”
source: CNN
