I think a person opens themselves up to a lot of negative judgments and biases by admitting to having been incarcerated in the past. This is both in real life and on social media like PC. It's bad enough to have the stigma of mental illness, and then there is the stigma of incarceration. In my case, I also have other stigmatizing conditions.

From what you write FriendlyJoe it looks like you have been able to somehow escape from that past and build a productive life, so congrats to you for that. I can't imagine it was easy.