Weldon Angelos is a father of two who has been in jail for 11 years. He still has another 40 to go.

Given a 55-year sentence a decade ago, when he is released from prison he will be almost 80-years-old.

His crime? Selling marijuana.

The Daily Beast’s Tim Mak writes:

Angelos is an extreme case: even though the crime was considered non-violent, Angelos carried a firearm during a series of marijuana sales to a Salt Lake City police informant – so federal mandatory minimums required that he be put in jail until he’s 80 years old. Judge Paul Cassell protested the sentence when he was forced to make it in 2004, a move he told The Daily Beast he considers “the most unjust, lengthy sentence that I had to hand down.” At the time of the trial, Cassell noted that Angelos’ sentence exceeded the minimum required for an individual convicted of airline hijacking, detonating a bomb intended to kill bystanders, and the exploitation of a child for pornography.

Angelos is a victim of federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws. The Constitution Project, a non-profit think tank that advocates for criminal justice reform, outlined in 2013 just how absolutely ridiculous his sentence is:

Had Mr. Angelos been charged in [a Utah] court…he would have been paroled years ago. Indeed, Mr. Angelos’s sentence is longer than the punishment imposed on far more serious federal offenses and offenders. His term of imprisonment exceeds the federal sentence for, among others, an aircraft hijacker, a second-degree murderer, a kidnapper, and a child rapist. Incredibly, Mr. Angelos’s sentence is longer than those imposed for three aircraft hijackings, three second-degree murders, three kidnappings, or three rapes. In fact, the 55-year sentence for possessing a firearm three times in connection with minor marijuana offenses is more than twice the federal sentence for a kingpin of a major drug trafficking ring in which a death results, and more than four times the sentence for a marijuana dealer who shoots an innocent person during a drug transaction.

Mak notes at The Daily Beast that the Koch Brothers-backed Generation Opportunity is taking up Angelos’ case.

“[This year] offers a unique moment in history in which people of different backgrounds and political leanings are coming together to facilitate a substantive dialogue on how to fix [the criminal justice system],” Generation Opportunity President Evan Feinberg told The Daily Beast.

Last year it was announced that criminal justice reform would become a priority for the Kochs. Charles Koch said in December that these reform efforts would be about “making it fair and making [criminal] sentences more appropriate to the crime that has been committed.”

Koch chief counsel Mark Holden added, when discussing current sentencing laws, “It definitely appears to have a racial angle, intended or not.”