you have this moment where you get a last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steel mesh. louisiana s highway 66. its beautiful countryside is not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they will most likely die. that road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary, former plantation the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola, named after the african country owned by the slaves. now it is confining about 5,500 men. today i m heading into ground zero of mass incarceration. there s certainly a heightened awareness as i walk-through here with no guards. for the next couple of days, i will be staying here, exploring key issues of the prison reform dblate. juveniles sentenced to life without parole. we were children when we got children incarcerated. the lasting effect of the war on drugs. sentence was 150 years. power of rehabilitation. you know that you have done something. your life is worthwhile. and
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$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 named
Name is andrew hundley. 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. all right, all right. today s the day. oh, yes, sir. hundley served 19 years in prison. at age 15, hundley 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 then tried to get rid of her body by burning it. you committed a pretty savage crime. it was a horrible crime. an unexcusable crime. and there s nothing i can do that will be able to undo that. thankfully they were able to look and see how i had changed. so, if a parole board said that he changed after 19 years, what will it say about henry montgomery after 55 years? you re the first guy that got out and he s still here. yeah, there s a lot of guilt. i went to prison