History Main / JustGotOutOfJail

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', the page quote comes from the second case of the second game. [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Soseki Natsume]], after being acquitted of murder in the fourth case of the first game, ends up being accused of attempted murder again soon afterward, and finds himself in court again, as mentioned in the page quote.
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** "Harley's Holiday". Poor Harley even ''paid'' for that dress...

** In "The Gun", Matthew Logan murders his wife Sandra within hours of being released from prison.
** In "Alien Shop", Andy Pace has recently been released from prison after serving a sentence for drug dealing and is still on probation. He is desperately searching for a job so that he can support his pregnant wife Gabby and prove to her parents that he is not a deadbeat.

* Kana is released from prison at the beginning of ''[[LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject Magical Girl Raising Project Black]]'' so that she can be transferred to the magical girl class. The other students treat it as an interesting curiosity, but aren't bothered by it once they get to know her. Calkoro and Halna however treat her with caution/disdain respectively due to this.

* ''Film/BuffaloSixtySix'' opens with Billy getting let out of jail. He has to whiz so bad he asks to be let back in for just a sec, but they won't let him.

[[folder:Anime And Manga]]]
* ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'': Ranko was released from jail only shortly before being hired at the maid cafe.

* ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar''" Ranko was released from jail only shortly before being hired at the maid cafe.

* ''Film/TodayWeKilltomorrowWeDie'' opens with Bill Kiowa being released after spending five years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

* ''Film/IntoThheGrizzlyMaze'' opens with Rowan Moore on a bus returning to his home town having just got out of prison.

[[folder:Film--Live Action]]

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' begins with "[[MeaningfulName Joliet]]" Jake Blues being released from the prison that provides his nickname.
* The sequel, ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'', begins with Elwood being released from prison.

* In ''Series/{{Back to Life}}'' Miri Matteson attempts to return to a normal life after serving an 18 year prison sentence for murder. Besides the standard "I've never heard of this thing that was invented while I was incarcerated", she has to deal with many people in her home town regarding her with loathing for her crime.

* Various characters in ''Series/TheSopranos'' (Richie Aprile, Tony Blundetto, and Phil Leotardo, most prominently), only show up once they're released from jail, as a fairly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] way of having the characters be old friends without using RememberTheNewGuy.

* ''Henry's Crime''

* The 'Winter' segment of ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'' deals with Cain being just released from prison. No one will give him a job and people are after him for his earlier crimes. He finally takes an offer from a showman named Ruffalo to perform as "Killer Cain" in his traveling shooting show.
* In ''Film/TigerHouse'', the volatile Callum has only been out of prison for a few weeks and says he has no intention of ever going back [[spoiler:He's right, but not in the way he meant.]]
* At the start of ''Film/AScoreToSettle'', Frankie is released from prison after 19 years when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
* ''Film/{{Blastfighter}}'' opens with Tiger being released from the state pen after serving 8 years for murdering the man who killed his wife. His ex-partner Pete is waiting to pick him up.
* In ''Film/TheWalkingDead1936'', TheSyndicate picks John Ellman to be the fall guy for the murder of Judge Shaw because he has just been released from prison after serving a 10 sentence he received from the judge.
* Following the opening flashback, ''Film/{{Pistolera}}'' jumps to Angel being released from prison in the present day.

* It's heavily implied that this is the case with Ostap Bender in Literature/TheTwelveChairs (he wears a clean fancy suit and shoes but no everyday consumables like socks, and is homeless; the suit and shoes are implied to be given back to him upon release). This explains why he is extremely cautious about not violating the criminal code directly and enters Stargorod by foot to avoid run-ins with railroad police.

* The first episode of ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}'' has Vinnie just getting out of prison after spending time there to set up his cover identity.
* ''Series/PrisonBreak'': Linc (after his name was cleared the first time) kills a Mook and tells LJ and Sofia to run since he rightly assumes the police won't care if it's self-defense.

* Various characters in ''Series/TheSopranos'' (Richie Aprile, Tony Blundetto, and Phil Leotardo, most prominently), only show up once they're released from jail, as a fairly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] way of having the characters be old friends without using RememberTheNewGuy.

* In ''Series/{{Back to Life}}'' Miri Matteson attempts to return to a normal life after serving an 18 year prison sentence for murder. Besides the standard "I've never heard of this thing that was invented while I was incarcerated", she has to deal with many people in her home town regarding her with loathing for her crime.

* One ''Webcomic/HyperboleAndAHalf'' story depicts Allie and her boyfriend picking up "Helper Dog" from a shelter; Allie characterizes the dog's rather.. [[{{Foreshadowing}} intense]].. attitude as being like this.

* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}!'' begins with Jacknife being released from a normal prison. He immediately demonstrates [[SarcasmMode how well he learned his lesson]] by killing a man and stealing his car with his daughter still in it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when Meg was sentenced to 3 months in prison, she had a hard time adjusting to the norms of the outside world. She rapes Peter with a loofah in the shower, uses a bucket in her bedroom to relieve herself in instead of walking down the hall to the bathroom, beats Peter and the popular kids at school who made fun of her (and then French kisses [[AlphaBitch Connie]] to show dominance), and is hostile to everyone. It overlaps with HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook.

[[folder:Film]]
* A staple in heist movies:
** ''Film/HudsonHawk'' starts with Eddie getting out of prison. He's almost immediately forced to participate in an international burglary operation.
** ''Film/OceansEleven'' [[BookEnds begins and ends]] with Danny Ocean being released from prison.
** Happens OnceAnEpisode in ''[[Film/OlsenBanden Olsen's Gang]]'' movies. Every movie starts with Egon leaving prison (usually with the new plan ready) and ends with him getting locked up again.
** In ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', Charlie is first spotted being released from prison and is promptly given the plan for the titular job.
** ''Film/TheAsphaltJungle'' and its remake ''Cool Breeze''
** ''Film/AnyNumberCanWin'' (''Mélodie en sous-sol'')
** ''Le deuxième souffle''
** ''Film/LeCercleRouge'' has Corey being approached by a guard and offered the job robbing the jewelry store the night before Corey is released.
** ''The Anderson Tapes''
** ''Film/TheHotRock''
** ''Film/BankShot''
** ''Film/{{Vabank}}'' and ''Vinci'' by Polish director Juliusz Machulski
** ''Henry's Crime''
** ''Film/TowerHeist''
** ''Film/AntMan1''
** ''Film/TheArtOfTheSteal'' opens with Crunch being released from a Polish prison after serving a 7 year sentence.
** ''Film/TheHeist1989'' opens with Neil being released from prison after serving four years for a crime he did not commit.

* The sequel, ''Blues Brothers 2000'', begins with Elwood being released from prison.
* In ''Film/{{Silverado}}'', one of the heroes, Emmitt, has just been released from jail when he's ambushed, breaks another character out of jail, infiltrates a group of bandits, and winds up on the wrong side of a fight with a corrupt sheriff.
* ''Film/TheSpitfireGrill'' begins with [[GenderBlenderName Percy]] being released from a five-year prison sentence.

* ''Film/SinCity'' has John Hartigan get released from prison on parole just so he could tie up a loose end. This was intentional on his part, however.
* In ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', this is Mr. Blond's backstory, as he was caught in a warehouse full of stolen goods. The authorities offered him a deal if he would turn state's evidence on Joe, but he refused and served four years instead. This loyalty is why [[spoiler: Nice Guy Eddie called bullshit when Mr. Orange claimed Blond was going to kill them and take off with the diamonds from the heist.]]

* At the end of the initial gunfight in ''Film/JudgeDredd'', Dredd arrests a man for tampering with a vending robot. When he realizes that the man he arrested was just released from prison (That very day), he adds a few years to the sentence. The reason the man had tampered with the robot was to have a hiding place from the shoot-out, which he had unknowingly walked into.
* The film ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'' begins with the protagonist getting out of juvenile detention.

-->--''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney 2: Revolve'', "The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro"