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Darius Mitchell served seven years at USP Oxford. Federal conspiracy. Eight-year sentence. He watched the seasons change through reinforced plastic and counted the days in meals and lockdowns and letters that came on Thursdays. Now he's out. Thirty-one years old. A Greyhound ticket, a halfway house on North Avenue, and a city that moved on without him.

The North Side empire is mythology now. The car wash on Fond du Lac is a Dollar Tree. The trap houses on Villard are boarded up. Trell is dea...