It’s a thought that weighs heavy on the minds of the more than 600,000 people who are released from prison each year in the United States, where the lack of reintegration support for newly released incarcerated people factors into why more than 65% of people being rearrested within three years. So much emphasis has been placed on socializing after quarantine and worries about being able to get back into the “swing of things,” yet many can’t understand how people coming out of prison need help adapting to avoid the cycle of reincarceration. Rather than judge me, that employer asked me what interested me and what I wanted to do with my life. Through their advocacy, I sat for my A-levels (exams high schoolers take in the UK) while in prison and once I was released, my grandfather helped me find my first job. My turnaround began because my family fought for my survival.
You may think you know the brutality of prison, but unless you’ve experienced it, no words can describe how torturous it is. I was arrested, charged and convicted for stealing from a department store in London and was sentenced to a year in a young offenders institute in the United Kingdom. I was a teenager who had made a choice that was a major mistake. I think back to 17-year-old me sitting in a jail cell more than 20 years ago trying to answer similar questions. Ashish Prashar Provided by Ashish Prashar
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