Former lawmaker George Santos (R-New York), who served 84 days in federal prison before receiving a presidential commutation on Friday, says he knows what he wants to do with his life now that he is no longer incarcerated.

“There is nothing more that I want to do than to focus and dedicate my entire life to prison reform,” Santos said in an interview Saturday.

Santos, who called his time in prison “humbling,” said the conditions at the prison he served time in – FCI Fairton, a federal correctional facility in New Jersey – were in “disarray.” He said he spent nearly half of his time in solitary confinement, an experience he called “dehumanizing” that informed his professed commitment to penal reform.

“There are a lot of people in prison, suffering. I’m not saying that people who have com

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