Ohio parolee reflects on her first year out of prison

CINCINNATI (AP) — Before her parole and release from prison last Christmas Day, Tyra Patterson had to make a five-year plan.Her goals were to live independently, get a job, travel, see her family and begin speaking in public about criminal justice reform."I completed that ... in less than a year," Patterson told The Enquirer in an interview last week from her rented house in suburban Cincinnati.She knows she is not the typical returning citizen, woman or man. Her case and her insistence on