When former juvenile lifer James Fuson was released from prison in 2022 after being incarcerated since age 16, he had no housing options.

Two Hamtramck men, Jonathan Rajewski and Kyle Daniel-Bey, took Fuson in, driving him from the Macomb Regional Correctional Facility to their artist and writer residency studio in Hamtramck.

Fuson had been sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole in 1995 for a double murder when he was 17, but was resentenced to a term of years in prison in 2021 and was released a year later, due to the U.S. Supreme Court finding that mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional.

Fuson lived for a year at the artist and writer residency studio Entry Points. Daniel-Bey, who was a juvenile lifer himself, and Rajewski, started

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