Is this it?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/nyregion/exonerated-now-what.html?_r=0
Sometimes jealousy can be an issue. Sometimes there may be unpaid debts involved that people are trying to collect on. Sometimes other prisoners will try to push up on the guy to give them some of his property before he leaves or to try to get him to do some favor for them when he gets on the street.
Officially, he’s treated like everyone else. Unofficially, nobody’s looking for any last minute problems.
How long do they stay in?
Are they allowed to go in or out as they please, for work such as apartment hunting or clothing purchase, if those are necessary.
You, my friend, are good. Some extracts:
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The justly incarcerated are likely to have access to a battery of post-release services like health care, housing aid and social-work assistance, but those who should not have been locked up in the first place are rarely given treatment to address their special needs, and are often left to fend for themselves, finding the cure for their “disease” in one another’s company.
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And there was Kian Khatibi, who was released in 2008 after serving nine years for a stabbing he eventually discovered that his brother had committed. Beyond the travail of coping with this filial betrayal, he was freed from prison with only the pocket cash he had when arrested and without identification, which left him initially unable to apply for a credit card, a bank account or assistance from the welfare office.
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In the last quarter-century, 1,314 wrongfully incarcerated Americans have been freed.
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The Innocence Project, for one, has two social workers on staff at its office in New York who disburse $10,000 grants to those who have been wrongfully imprisoned and help them find apartments and health care on release. But this assistance is made available only to clients of the project, which restricts its legal work to cases based on DNA evidence.
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Not too much about the procedure of release, but a good read.
Sometimes they get jealous. But, the main reason is that prisoners about to be released, especially those that were innocent, will be a target by those in prison because many times other inmates are predatory in nature. Thus, they view the about to be released inmate as having a weakness that they can exploit by threat of violence (that may delay the innocent inmate’s release), which can lead to a quick and easy extortion attempt, etc… you get the picture. Otherwise, an innocent person may be considered “soft,” not an actual violent guy, and therefore another easy target to get something out of, whether it be money, or simply somebody to use as a stepping stone on the road to jailhouse respect for the true predators inside. An innocent also person might be seen as someone from “the other side,” a “square,” someone who true predators will never fully respect. In prison, violence and chaos are King. -Kian Daniel Khatibi ~Lived it. Survived it. Learned from it.
Did y’all see what i see?
Looks like someone did a vanity search and found us.
Khatibi K., you are better situated than just about anyone to answer the OP. What was the process like once it was discovered that you had not committed the crime?