From USA Today:
A Tennessee businessman and prison reform advocate pardoned by President Donald Trump for federal drug convictions is now second in command of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Joshua J. Smith, 50, was appointed deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons on June 9, according to a bureau spokesperson. He is the first formerly incarcerated person to hold a leadership position at the bureau, the spokesperson said.
Smith, of Knoxville, became an entrepreneur after he completed a five-year prison sentence in 2003 for marijuana and cocaine trafficking in the Middle District of Tennessee. In 2019, he founded the Fourth Purpose Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to "transforming prisons into places of purpose and personal growth." Continue reading >>>
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