Three Somali brothers from Middle Tennessee have served between two...

On Jan. 14, Mohamed Omar, a 31-year-old Nashville resident who buys and sells used cars for a living, was released after serving almost four years off and on in a federal detention center outside of Bowling Green, Ky. That in itself is not unusual: 11 million people cycle through American jails each year, according to recent reports filed by the Vera Institute of Justice and the Prison Policy Initiative.