America's longest-serving marijuana prisoner freed after 31 years
by Kenya Evelyn in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5BHJ2)
Richard DeLisi, now 71, was sentenced to 90-year prison term in 1989 for marijuana trafficking, as part of era's war on drugs'
A man believed to be the longest-serving inmate for non-violent, marijuana charges has been released from a Florida prison, and is set to spend the holidays with family for the first time in more than 31 years.
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