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 the pri
grandfather! he was 85, and i was 18. it was horrifying. a place where they had no voice, and no choice. i finally just said, okay! with tears streaming down my face. but rebecca her sister, defying the leader who ruled them all. he said they will be destroyed in the flesh. instead, she got out and helped uncover the truth about this powerful profit. this is a horrible thing to listen to. a sinister secret caught on tape! now prepare, dear sister it will just rock you! for too long, he alluded the law. could she bring the him down? i looked him in the eyes as if to say. we meet again! it is a long way home. back to that place tucked away between the towering [inaudible] of utah. the place where you have been in that other lifetime. it is tough to be back. brings up a lot of things that are still really raw. then when she was known as sister becky. and wore those colorful prairie dresses. and piled up her long and braided hair. and shared a
system doesn t want to acknowledge that they made a mistake, but you made a mistake. the detective was like you re gonna tell us who did this and i was like, i didn t do anything. to hear the judge say guilty. everything just froze. two brothers convicted of murder their fight back against the justice system. twice is a pattern, pattern of how to gain a conviction. they knew they were innocent and the question was do we have enough. you have several witnesses saying their testimony was coerced, can they all be lying? if i have to die in this situation, let it be said that i died trying to prove that i was an innocent man, never that i gave up. never. hello and welcome to dateline, imagine spending nearly your entire adult life for a crime you did not commit, the minute the man you re about to meet say that that nightmare felt all too real to a decades long journey to prove their innocence they face roadblocks, giving up was not an option but would their fi
voice, nothing. i want to know what s happened to my mom. i didn t think it was an accident. when did the whisper? start immediately. i believed she d been murdered. there is a dark business going on at this nightclub. that is something buddy one talking about what happened at night? it was a sacred thing for us to do. i thought we were finally getting justice, i was absolutely shocked, i was shocked. if you have a feeling in your gut and in your heart, fight, and don t ever give up. a few feet from the city limits of toledo, ohio, a car swings around a corner on a dusty stretch of road. it s, dark we hours, just stabs of light spilling from the house. most people are asleep, he could so easily have missed line in the grass on the side of a road, her feet drawn up to her chest, barely breathing, first drove right by her, the story went and then doubled back for a 30 year journey from one lonely child. there s all these lives that have not been answer
standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see