This Christmas is Tanesha Bannister’s first with her family in 16 years. She was released from prison under the First Step Act, which seeks to redress harsh laws that disproportionately affected thousands of African Americans. (hereandnow)
This holiday season marks Tanesha Bannister’s first Christmas with her family in 16 years.
“I felt like I wanted to kiss the ground,” Bannister says of the moment she walked out of prison. “It’s like different air that you breathe.” The First Step Act, among other reforms, applies the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively, meaning Bannister and other prisoners who were sentenced before 2010 are now eligible for release.
Bannister says she kept in close contact with her kids, trying to counsel them from behind bars over 15-minute collect calls, so they wouldn’t make the same mistakes she did. Bannister knows she’s lucky to have work. She says many former inmates are desperate to become productive members of society and work an honest job, but often face serious stigma in getting hired.
Earlier this year, Bannister had the opportunity to meet Trump at a rally in South Carolina. She says she knows people have “mixed feelings” about the president, but that “shaking his hand, and he’s kissing me on the cheek, saying that he would back me in any endeavor that I want to embark on was just an amazing feeling.”
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