What it's like serving a life sentence in prison with no chance of release
When Calvin Duncan was 19 years old, he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Now, he's helping to tell the stories of other men who have found themselves behind bars for life.
When Calvin Duncan was 19 years old, he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit.
"I was in Angola for 24 years," he says.
He heard the same story over and over from other inmates: "That they was innocent, that they didn't commit the crimes that they was in prison for."
Not everyone was legally innocent, of course. Duncan says a lot of people were led astray by drug problems or poverty. And they made mistakes. Life-changing mistakes.
"They went down that path, you know, committing petty crimes. And then in some cases, it escalated into a murder that they regret," he says.
