Survival after prison shouldn’t be a matter of luck

Survival after prison shouldn’t be a matter of luck

(Photo by Jack Yen Joy Photography/Getty Images)I spent 43 years in the Nevada prison system, including 22+ years in solitary confinement. I went in at 18 on a relatively minor charge with an expected release in two years. Instead, I emerged at 62 years of age. Over all those decades, I dreamed of freedom but when my moment finally came, the challenge to stay free was nothing I ever could have imagined. I was homeless for close to a year, shiver…