The Long Way Home
“Each step in the transition from prison to community is an opportunity for either social integration or isolation.”
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
