Returned to Society after 44 Years In Prison

in #busy • 7 years ago (edited)

Otis

Returned to Society after 44 Years In Prison

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Otis Johnson went to jail at the age of 25. When he got out at 69,

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he rejoined a world that was starkly different from the one he remembered. Al Jazeera English tells his story in this clip, after meeting Otis Johnson at a New York City shelter for ex-convicts.

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Remember the words of Andy, in The Shawshank Redemption, about hope: “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

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Eventually Otis is reunited with his family, reestablishing part of his support network in the outside world. I wish him the very best.

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