masters degree from a bible college. he even became an ordained minister. a couple of times a week, he gospel raps his former preaching to the population. it s hard to square the man sitting across from me with the horrible crime that he committed. your actions caused the death of a baby. yeah. when he was 21, he was watching his stepson. he says the child was inconsolable. he shook the baby so violently he died. now he s serving a 60-year sentence for manslaughter. how do you move past that? how do you become a different person? at first, to be honest, i didn t know what i was going to do. it was sickening to my heart that i would actually have done something like that. he says he was filled with anger, which had its roots in his childhood. this is a
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in prison for 45 years. when he was 19, he and his younger brother robbed a store, a crime that ended with the murder of the owner. now dying of cancer, he s asked for a compassionate release. but the vast majority of petitioners for compassionate release are denied, and so was frank. frank, how are you feeling? i m from nbc, lester holt. oh, yeah. we had a nice conversation. frank, do you think you should go home? soon i know that. it helps my throat. yeah. i can open that for you. let me open that for you. there you go, frank. all right.
key. critics say that has been our countries approach to crime for far too long. the the question whether mass incarceration is keeping us any safer. and, what lengthy prison terms mean for many of the more than 2 million americans behind bars. lester holt spent three days in one of the nation s toughest penitentiary s, and this is what he witnessed. here s his special report, life inside. life at angola prison isn t what you might imagine. the vast majority live just like this. more than 80 men in open dorms sleeping on bunk beds. but i ll be staying on a unit next to death row for high risk offenders, or in my case, a high profile guest. we re going to go down the tier here. my home for the next 2 nights will be on a tier called ccr or closed cell restriction.
to get out. and when you do next to nothing to prepare them for successful re-entry, then you are creating a future that is more riddled with crime. but louisiana s reforms focus on nonviolent offenders. so, what about violent offenders? like the juvenile lifer group i met, or the men dying in hospice. we clearly met people in that prison who don t pose a threat to society. but in your opinion do some people simply belong in prison because what they did was just reprehensible? well, because what they did was reprehensible and there continues to be opposition in the community and among the victim s family. look, whether someone continues to pose a threat to society is a factor to be considered in whether they get released. but not the only factor? correct. it can t be the determinative factor to the exclues of all others. both henry montgomery and clifford hampton face opposition from their
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