LAS VEGAS - Fifty-six-year-old Lance Reberger reached a milestone this week: he learned how to make a password for an online account.For many people, it may not sound like a big deal, but after 31 years in prison, Reberger is digitally illiterate."If you go out and have a plan, which most people it seems like they have a plan, but once you get out and face the reality of what’s going on out here, I had no clue.
So right now I would be homeless if I didn’t have the help that I had," Reberger told KVVU.The help he’s speaking of is Jared Uraine, a Nevada realtor who met Reberger through a prison ministry program."When I heard that he’d been in for 31 years I kind of did the math, and knowing him on somewhat of a personal level ...
you can see the crash course ahead that’s coming," Uraine told KVVU.READ MORE: Family sees video of loved one 5 years after Las Vegas massacreWhen Reberger was released in July, he had nowhere to go, so he moved into transitional housing.
His rent was $600 a month."I didn’t like it, it was group living, dorm living, my particular room had eight other people living there," he told KVVU.Uraine knew Reberger had no job, little-to-no money, no credit — and a felony on his record."They want their application in a PDF format, and so how does he do that?" Uraine said. "So we’ll do that and I’m like, ok send me a picture of your social security card ...