Ex-Lions WR Young released from Calif. prison

Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young was released from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation last week after serving almost half of his four-year prison sentence for battery with serious injury.

The 29-year-old Young had previously been denied parole in February for the fight he was sentenced to prison for in 2016 - the last crime in a string of them that dated back to 2013, when he was released by both the Lions and the Rams.

Young had been granted 862 days - or the equivalent of 2.3 years - of time served by the court, which allowed him to be paroled last Friday. He spent the final year-plus of his imprisonment in the California Health Care Facility, which…