i m dara brown with the top stories. president trump will shop in north carolina to view hurricane dorian damage on friday. the u.s. coast guard says they have been unable to reach crew members unaccounted for after a cargo ship overturned near georgia port. now back to dateline: life inside. in my three days at angola, most of the men i spoke with had committed violent crimes and received long sentences. life without parole? yeah. but like every prison, there are also nonviolent offenders serving long sentences that might as well be life.
factor to the exclusion of all others. both face opposition from their victims families. what will happen to them when they see the parole board? montgomery is about to find out. and someone has come to support him. his name is andrew hundredly, he might look like a lawyer, but he s actually the first juvenile lifer in louisiana to be released because of montgomery s supreme court case. today s the day. yes, sir. he served 19 years in prison. at age 15 he was out with a teenage girl when they got into an argument. he became enraged and beat her over the head with a metal rod and tried to get rid of her body by burning it. you committed a pretty savage crime. it s a horrible crime. there s nothing i can do to undo
especially if you re convicted as a teenager. advocates like brian stevenson say juvenile offenders should never be treated the same as an adult. we put thousands of kids in adult jails and prisons. we started prosecuting these kids. even today we have states with no minimum age. i don t think we should ever put children in adult jails in prison. what about ones that committed violent crimes like murder? we got children incarcerated. i m sitting in on a support group. all these men committed their crimes before they were adults and were given sentences of life without the possibly of parole. they re called juvenile lifers. i was 16 years old when i committed my crime. 17 years old. committed my crime at the age of 16. there were about 2,000 juvenile lifers like them in u.s. prisons today. i was a lot different at 16 than i am at 60 now.
them. i went to see him in the dorm where he lives. this is my bed right here. this is your home? yeah. this is mine out here. he s been locked up 61 years. since you have been here, we have landed a man on the moon. yeah. think about that. yeah. there s been a lot of changes. hampton says six decades in prison have changed him and thanks to the man sitting next to him, hampton will now have a chance at freedom. why do you think you deserve parol? i wouldn t say that i deserve par parol. i wouldn t use that word deserve because i took someone s life. i would say that i have earned parole. in fact, both hampton and montgomery will see the parole board the same day, and i ll be there. how are you feeling? i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
it is time to rethink prison from simply punishment to rehabilitation. you say it is about rehabilitation but a lot of americans think it should be punishment. we could make somebody worse. but as i m about to hear, plenty of the incarcerated do believe it s just about punishment. another day in the field. much of angola prison is rizon. because they need the massive capacity of 5g with ultra wideband, so more screaming, streaming, posting fans. can experience 5g all at once. this is happening in 13 stadiums all across the country. now if verizon 5g can do this for the nfl. imagine what it can do for you.