American Douglas Lindsay left prison last November -- after 19 years and 28 days. He had been given a life prison sentence for selling the drug crack cocaine. President Barack Obama reduced his sentence last year. Lindsay is one of 306 people who had sentences for nonviolent crimes reduced by the president, who calls the United States “a nation of second chances.” Lindsay told VOA he knows many former prisoners have a hard time finding work after their release. “I was lucky,” he said. Lindsay’s younger brother helped him get a job at a local pasta producer near his brother’s North Carolina home. He now loads big boxes of pasta for shipment to stores. Douglas Lindsay was 28 when he was sentenced, and 47 when he left prison. At the time of his arrest, he had completed a college study program. He was hoping to marry and have children.