Prison time haunts freed ex-agents

Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos wakes up in the middle of the night expecting a guard to shine a flashlight in his face. Jose Alonso Compean, his colleague, still has nightmares that he’s not really home.

It has not been easy readjusting to life outside their one-man prison cells, where they spent the last two years of their lives in segregation.

Since the commutation of their sentences by George W. Bush on his last day as president, the former agents, who were charged with the nonfatal shooting of a Mexican national after he abandoned a load of marijuana near the border, are learning to live in the world again. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/21/freed-ex-agents-are-haunted-by-time-in-prison/By Sara A. Carter — Washington Times