THE WAR ON POT MARCHES ON: IN NEARLY HALF THE COUNTRY, MARIJUANA ARRESTS HAVE GONE UP SINCE 2014
Fate Winslow is one of them. Crammed in a dorm with more than 80 other prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, he is serving out a life sentence. “Now pack[ed] in like sardines,” he wrote in a recent letter from the prison. They’re double-bunked and there’s no air conditioning to fight the Louisiana heat. “How is it fit to get 86 bodies no air?” he wondered. “Well you see the picture — very hot.”
“Let’s just say there are good days and bad days,” he wrote.