Tag: rehabilitation

The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.

In a fascinating New York magazine profile of John Hinckley, recently released, writer Lisa Miller lays out the conditions of his freedom.

At Pacific Standard, Will McGrath reports on Fort Lyon — “a Betty Ford Center for the homeless — a radical experiment to rehabilitate some of society’s most vulnerable members.”

In the New York Times Magazine, Jon Mooallem follows two ex-convicts who pick up inmates the day they are released and help then navigate through their first day of freedom, which can be unnerving if they’ve been behind bars for more than a decade.

“In prison Angel thought that it wouldn’t be too hard to find a job once he got out. He believed he had come a long way.”