The shift in rhetoric from both sides of the aisle represents a turnabout from recent years, when criminal justice reform to reduce the rate of incarceration was one of the nation's few bipartisan issues.

This is the south side. You're on the south side," Alvaro Castro yelled

After his honorable discharge from the Army, he had moved from Northern Virginia to California to become a full-time certified caregiver to his best Army pal, who had been left a quadriplegic after a vehicle accident in Afghanistan

No one ever explained to Johnson; his parents, William and Angela Johnson; or Johnson's criminal defense attorney why he was put in isolation, they said. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, which oversees the jail and was responsible for the decision, did not respond to several requests for comment.

Johnson has spent the four years since his acquittal trying to move forward.

Eighteen months into the grueling two-year training, he collapsed from heat exhaustion while carrying extra weight in his rucksack. He wound up working in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment based in Fort Campbell, Ky., as a mechanic on vehicles for Special Forces units

na he purchased legally as a treatment for his PTSD

People of color were overrepresented in that count, as they are in the nation's prisons.