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Cracking Open---Michael Short's Journey

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Cracking Open Michael Short knows he was wrong to sell crack cocaine, but he questions whether he needed 15 years in prison to learn his lesson. Now some of the politicians who helped put him there are wondering, too. By Vanessa M. Gezari Sunday, June 1, 2008; W18 Washington Post ON HIS 18TH DAY OF FREEDOM, Michael Short awakened before dawn. In prison, corrections officers had paced the halls at night, jingling keys and shining flashlights. Now Mike slept fitfully, even in a king-size bed. It was a damp, gray Tuesday late in February. He slipped on a pinstriped shirt that hid his tattoos, slid his feet into shiny new loafers and rubbed coconut oil into his hair, cut razor-straight at the temples and flecked with gray. He was 36, with a basketball player's long-legged gait and the lined brow of a man well acquainted with consequences...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).