Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young reportedly has been released from a California prison after serving nearly 20 months for assaults in the state.

Young, 29, was paroled early Saturday from a state health care facility in Stockton, where he had been housed, according to the Los Angeles Times. A message from the Free Press to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was not immediately returned.

The L.A. native was sentenced to four years in prison last year after he pleaded no contest to beating up a Los Angeles neighbor with his fists and a metal object in January 2016. He also had served time concurrently as part of plea deal for an assault in Carlsbad.

The Times reported Young, a 2011 second-round pick from Boise State who spent two troubled seasons with the Lions, accumulated at least 25 criminal charges in southern California since 2013.

In excepts from the prison diary he previously shared with the Times, Young attributed his legal problems to having bipolar disorder and hearing voices.

“Having bipolar has pretty much torn down my life,” Young wrote. “It’s been four years of fighting so many different behaviors. When I was first diagnosed, I didn’t want to believe it because I felt my life was too perfect to have bipolar. Football players don’t take medicine. I’m macho. Put me back on the field. But, no, that’s really not what I needed.”

Shortly after the Lions cut Young in January 2013, the Rams signed him but also cut him shortly after he exhibited erratic behavior.

Young wrote in his diary that he hoped to resume his NFL career after his prison release.

“Thank God I have it all under control now,” he wrote. “So when I make this comeback to the league, Rodger (Goodell) and the rest will understand that athletes are not exempt in mental illness. We have to live with these differences for the rest of our life.”

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