what happens when inmates go from the box to release? they come back. /

USA nowadays’s Kevin Johnson has followed the lives of nine inmates who were all released from solitary confinement on the same day in 2002. All of the men were felons,Texans, and while all of them hoped to remain out of prison, and none of them were given a transition period between “the box” and the street. Now,13 years later, all nine men have returned to prison. Some have even been thrown back into solitary, and set up to fail by a self-defeating system. Read more...




Source: gawker.com