Reintegration Into Society Pillows

'Do you mind if I call my parole officer?'

'Maybe you could refer to your time behind bars as 'living in a gated community'.'

"While you were incarcerated."

'Why did you leave your previous place?'

"I think I'm having pre-traumatic stress disorder."

Converted Parking Garage

"Welcome."

"Mr. Caldwell comes to us from a minimum-security correctional facility in Pennsylvania."

Coronovirus dreams

'Looks like the deer are moving out of these woods.'

'On the positive side, we were very impressed with the number of your personal weaknesses you were able to identify!'

"I never thought I'd have to move back in with my parents."

Bring Out Your Dead. . . Stay In Your Bed.

Lockdown: Where every day is just like the last."

"Baldo, are you translating for Marco?"

"We truly regret that you were unjustly imprisoned for 63 years, and we're sure you'll enjoy your new-found freedom."

Missing the human touch.

Bob walked away from the halfway house – but only got halfway.

'And where do you think you've been till this time?'

"Oh, I'm comfortable with a job offering minimum security. It reminds me of my last 4 years in prison."

"Those gaps are when I dropped out of the system and into the prison system."

"What do you want to be when you reenter the workforce?"

"Return to Gaza"

'You'll have to excuse Gerald. He's not so much the party animal these days.'

'I never seem to fit in anywhere...'

The road from incarceration back to civilization can be rocky

'I get out in sixty days -- I guess I better update my resume.'

'Real income in the United States is at the same level as 1995.'

"The missing part of my resume? I took a gap year visiting Rikers Island."

"It's right here...if Hispanics don't assimilate, this country is heading for trouble."

"Your out-standing record of community service would have been even more impressive...had it not been court-ordered."

'Our silences aren't awkward enough.'

'It's been so long since I've been out I hardly know how to act.'

"His term was up two months ago- he can't find an apartment."

'You mean during your hiring interview this morning he never mentioned the gap in your resume?'