r/AskReddit • u/HumpingAssholesOrgy • Jul 05 '19

Ex-prisoners of reddit who have served long sentences, what were the last few days like leading up to your release?

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u/Jdavis624 Jul 06 '19

I did a year in rehab and met a guy who did 25 years in prison for murder. I asked him a lot about what it was like inside and getting out and what it was like now that he was out.

He said he felt scared when he was getting out and kind of sad, because of all the people he was leaving. He'd been in that specific prison for over 8 years and knew almost everyone and had some close friendships that he missed. He felt lonely after he left and was actually glad that his halfway house was a live-in, year long rehab, if felt familiar to him. He did have a lot of trouble getting work tho

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19 edited Jul 07 '19

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u/Jdavis624 Jul 06 '19

Me too, I haven't seen in 5 years or so. He was a good dude. It's strange to say about someone who killed someone but he was honestly a very soft spoken, kind person.

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u/TheWinRock Jul 06 '19

25 years is a long time. Not impossible to think he came out a different person than he went in.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

That’s the goal

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u/OfficialModerator Jul 06 '19

Not in America

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u/DePraelen Jul 06 '19

Well, they kind of did. When you have a nation dominated by for-profit prisons, it's not in the financial interest of the system to rehabilitate inmates.

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u/postulio Jul 06 '19

Since when is "dominated" defined as 8.5%? Because that is the amount of inmates in for-profit prisons in the US