They left prison. But the work to rebuild their lives was just beginning.

They left prison. But the work to rebuild their lives was just beginning.

When Rea Smith came home from prison, she also stopped eating.A drug possession charge had led her to spend two years in incarceration, first at Hennepin County jail and then at the Minnesota Corrections Facility in Shakopee. Smith got out under a status called intense supervisor release. She expected that a corrections agent would show up right away at her cousin’s house, where she was staying. But the actual visit didn’t come for a week. Durin…