The Long Way Home
“Each step in the transition from prison to community is an opportunity for either social integration or isolation.”
by Bruce Western
Jun 20, 2018
3 minutes
Jerry called the day he got out of prison. He had just been released that afternoon, taken in handcuffs to a reentry center on Boston’s South Shore. He was told that the center could help him find a job and get treatment, but he stayed only a few minutes to get directions to the train. A white man in his 50s, Jerry returned to his neighborhood in South Boston to meet his father. He looked for the old man at the station and then
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