Stepping Out

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C. came out of prison about a month ago. A colleague and I picked him up from the gate. Everything went smoothly: he was excited to be out and happy to see us. Because he had completed his sentence probation were not involved; that is quite unusual, but it simplified things.

He had made the decision to move away from his area and come to a city on the other side of the country where he knew no one except me, slightly, from our…