Tony Lewis Sr. comes home, ending son’s long fight for father’s freedom
With three words on Monday, Tony Lewis Jr. announced to his Instagram followers how his decades-long fight to free his father, Tony Lewis Sr., from prison had ended.Those words were a twist on ones that Lewis Jr. had uttered repeatedly over the years and had become part of D.C.’s landscape, literally, through stickers that clung to sidewalks and light poles. “Free Tony Lewis,” those read.
Drug kingpin is the title most people associate with the elder Lewis. He was 26 when he was arrested and charged with running a massive crack cocaine operation in the city. At the time, the son who shared his name and his likeness was 9 years old.That son is now an adult, and he has formed a reputation in the District for forging a different path than his father. His father became a federal inmate; he became a federal employee.
He said he hoped that other people who have relatives serving “draconian” sentences that were set during the country’s war on drugs would see in his father’s case a reason to keep advocating for their own loved ones.
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