California has the largest prison system in the United States. The United States has the largest prison system in the world.
You have all the different gangs, and you have all the different factions in each gang. It is so abnormal for a human being to put under those conditions.
In some cases capital murder cases, just preventing a death sentence and getting life without parole was a win, and that was a win that I struggled to wrap my head around.
A lot of people in society believed that we need to throw away the key on the men and women that go to prison. I may have been innocent, but there are a lot of guilty people in prison that are not the worst of the crime that they committed. These people can be redeemed.
Our sentences have gotten so long that when we hear somebody say, oh, we got five years, that's not bad, think about how much happens in five years. We've lost track of how long that is.
I mean, when they came and said that they were charging me like that was so shocking to me because I had been tragged to deceive him everything from the day I met him till the day I lost him. He's keeping him alive.
People just want justice so bad that they're willing to accept everything at face value when they need to really look deeper and really stand up when they hear about an injustice that's happening.
When you're manipulated by a power and a justice system that is supposed to be the last of the line, is supposed to be the true sense of justice, the true sense of what's going on, at least as closest we can get it.
I can forgive anybody that has been manipulated. I can't forgive those that did the manipulating. And I always say there's two naive positions. One naive position is that everyone in prison is innocent. The other naive position is everyone in prison is guilty. We're trying to figure out where does that line end.
Last season on Sworn, we looked at some of the crimes in cases that caught America's attention and highlighted serious issues in our justice system. This season, we've got a new approach. We're tackling the real problems in legal system directly. We're looking at things like faulty forensic science, false confessions, and mandatory minimum prison sentences. Here are the stories of innocent people who ended up behind bars and hear from
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