Just go on Upwork and respond to jobs you are comfortable with and give low ball offers, and an explanation that you are skilled english speaking person with ex

Just go on Upwork and respond to jobs you are comfortable with and give low ball offers, and an explanation that you are skilled english speaking person with experience that wants to built a recent / modern portfolio which is why you are taking cheap work. Then register, yourname.dev and post the work their with a resume or something similar and a little bit about you etc. You can put the work on github if that's applicable as well. Add a few side projects interfacing with API's as well. Just pulling basic data and manipulating it a little bit. Provide working demos and the code on your site. Explain that most of your coding knowledge was learned through the Department Of Corrections inmate education program and the 20 yr gap in your work history is because you owed a debt to society.