Good Read

  I'm minimally versed in this but it appears that there is a movement to reform prison sentencing. We've seen Obama's pardoning actions and Bill Clinton's remorse recently. One gets the sense that more change is in the future. Three strikes? A big mistake.

NYT: You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? Carlos and Roby are two ex-convicts with a simple mission: picking up inmates on the day they’re released from prison and guiding them through a changed world.

Carlos handed Hammock the key and asked if he wanted to pop the trunk. But the key wasn’t a key; it was a button. After squinting at it for a second, Hammock handed it back and said, ‘‘I wouldn’t know what to do with that.’’

He’d been in prison for 21 years.