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i had so many thoughts leading up to this assignment as to what it was gonna be like. trying to imagine going down this road, knowing it s a one-way trap. there s this moment when you get this last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steal match. louisiana s highway 66. it s a beautiful countryside. it s undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they ll most likely die. but road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary. a former plantation the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola, named after the african country that was home to the slaves who once worked these very fields. now, angela is the largest maximum security prison in the country, where today, i ll be housed with about 5500 men. i m heading into ground zero of mass incarceration. there s certainly a heightened awareness as i walk through here. no guards. for the next couple days, i ll be staying here, explain key issues of t ....
$6250 for each of his 28 years behind bars. from 2016 to 2020, 374 people wrongfully convicted of murder, 61% african-americans, have reunited with their families together they spent over 6000 years in prison. years. years they will never get back. that s all for this edition of dateline. i am craig melvin. thank you for watching. i am craig melvin and this is dateline. leading up to this assign what it was going to be like. i had so many thoughts leading to this assignment as to what it would be like. trying to imagine going down isoad, knowing it s a one- way trip. this moment where you get your last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steelman mesh. louisiana highway 66. it s beautiful countryside and undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they will most likely die. that road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary, a former plantation. the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola ....
Closer you are to something, the more it s revealed to you. i soon meet my neighbor, william curtis who is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. he tells me he s locked in ccr because he s tried to escape multiple times. how far did you get? not very. he s only allowed out of his cell one hour a day. do you go out? not very often. the last time i was out there was probably about four years ago. you haven t seen the sun in four years? four years. it s hard to imagine. i just want to get through the night. all right, man. you take care of yourself. we ll be here a couple of nights. i quickly learn that falling asleep in prison is challenging. the toilets flush loudly and often. cell to cell chatter lasts well into the ....
he s only allowed out of his cell one hour a day. do you go out? not very often. the last time i was out there was probably about four years ago. you haven t seen the sun in four years? four years. it s hard to imagine. i just want to get through the night. all right, man. you take care of yourself. we ll be here a couple of nights. i quickly learn that falling asleep in prison is challenging. the toilets flush loudly and often. cell to cell chatter that lasts well into the night. and my bed is attached to the wall to curtis . so when he moves around, i feel it. bed s not much for comfort. it is kind of a plastic mattress. but it did the trick. i slept okay. ....
he s only allowed out of his cell one hour a day. do you go out? not very often. the last time i was out there was probably about four years ago. you haven t seen the sun in four years? four years. it s hard to imagine. i just want to get through the night. all right, man. you take care of yourself. we ll be here a couple of nights. i quickly learn that falling asleep in prison is challenging. the toilets flush loudly and often. cell to cell chatter lasts well into the night. and my bed is attached to the wall to curtis . so, believe it or not, when he moves around, i feel it. bed s not much for comfort. it is kind of a plastic mattress. but it did the trick. i slept okay. ....