by Carey L Biron - Sight Magazine

By the time Lee "Taqwaa" Bonner got out of prison in California, he had spent 30 years behind bars and was unsure where to go.

He stayed at a halfway house for three months, but then had to find a home. Everywhere he went, doors were slammed in his face.

"I tried to move in with my younger sister, until [an official] informed me that I was putting her housing in jeopardy," Bonner, 56, told Context.