Starting Over

I've seen many sad sights in my lifetime, but I what I saw today really hit me.

I was driving home and had to stop at a light. As I was at the light I heard loud cussing and screaming.

I looked to find where it was coming from and the source was two cars to my right.

Shortly after the cussing and screaming, I saw the passenger open the door, get out, and start walking. The passenger was a male dressed in a black prison jumpsuit. Living around the corner from a courthouse, I'm VERY familiar with that jumpsuit. Prisoners are always walking the streets of my neighborhood as they are released with no one to pick them up.

This particular guy had a ride, but the ride wasn't going too well.

Now I don't know who he was, or what he was in for, but it made me a bit sad to know that THIS was how his ride home was turning out. And he couldn't have been out for too long because I was in Compton, not far at all from the courthouse. So this ride could not have been more than 5 minutes long (assuming that they left DIRECTLY from the courthouse).

I kept thinking about how this young man had completed serving his time and he gets to re-enter society with screams and cussing. What a GREAT new start! NOT!!!

Again, though...I don't know the whole story. Heck, I don't know the story at all. I was just going by the 30 seconds that I witnessed.

I just hope that he finds his way and that this world is kind enough to him to offer him another chance. If not...he'll be back in those "prison blacks" as soon as he gets out of them.

Let the DIALOGUE begin: What are YOUR suggestions for inmates who are recently released from prison trying to make their way back into society?

Talk to me!

Til next time...