New York Daily News | Ex-convict helps prisoners by writing letters @dailynews | Uploaded May 2018 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
When Carl Dukes was released from prison after more than 30 years behind bars, he had no idea what to do next.

He spent his first few months of freedom in two of the city's most dangerous and rundown shelters and desperately tried to find a job.

Now, Dukes, 74, wakes each day at the crack of dawn and makes his way to the Long Island City, Queens, headquarters of the Fortune Society, an organization that helps former prisoners.

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