The Invisible Weight of Incarceration Sitting in Eastern NY Correctional Facility, serving my 17th year for manslaughter, I'm accustomed to the weight of my digital presence.
It's a burden few people outside these walls can comprehend – constant scrutiny, unrelenting judgment, and the task of clearing one's name.
Approximately 450,000 to 600,000 people return home from federal and state prison each year. Their anxiety about being discovered is ever present, like an invisible shadow waiting to pounce.