What Long-Term Recovery Looks Like From Prison

Two decades into my sentence and one decade clean, I'm embarking on a drug program with 130 other men who are close to release. No one wants to come back here. But the route to recovery is harder behind bars.
Seth Ferranti
The Fix (US)
Sunday, June 16, 2013

prison-recove-1I am near the end of a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. I’m currently spending my 20th consecutive summer away from my loving wife and family.