@BanxCartoons
A few years back I’d just been released from prison, where I'd been sent, like 70 per cent of male prisoners, for committing a non-violent crime. I’d done a hell of a long time locked up 23 hours a day in a single cell, stewing in my every thought. For countless hours I’d built up the moment of freedom. Instead, I found myself dumped outside the prison gates on an industrial estate somewhere in the Midlands.
Armed with a prison issue bin bag containing the clothes and books I hadn’t distributed to my friends who still had months and years left to serve, I had a rail warrant to the back corner of Essex where my girlfriend lived, and £40 in my wallet. That’s the standard amount they give prisoners on release – enough to buy heroin or drink for a weekend but very little else. Luckily I didn’t have a drug problem and I had a home to go to.
