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Top 10 People Who Out Lived INSANE Prison Sentences – PART 2
How’s it going Youtube I am Landon and lets just jump right into this one.
This is the top 10 people who out lived insane prison sentences part 2.
If you missed part 1 click right over here the video is well on its way to 3 million
views so with all the demand for a part 2 here it is.
Also in the comment section let us know what top 10 video we should make next.
Also make sure you stay tuned for the whole video because things get super crazy.
Ok starting off at number 10.
We have Desmond Ricks who has just spent 25 yrs behind bars.
US prosecutors just dropped all the charges for Desmond because after this case was looked
into again recently, investigators found out that police falsified evidence.
Demond was convicted of gunning down a friend outside a restaurant in Detroit Michigan back
in 1992 and he was sentenced to 32 yrs in prison.
Is this real life right now so Demond went to jail because people thought he killed his
friend so for 25 yrs everyone probably believed he did it.
So for that long this guy sat in a jail cell thinking about why he is even there.
Desmond was released at the age of 51 yrs its going to be hard to get back into society
but he does have some help.
In a new Michigan law it awards wrongly convicted prisoners $50,000 each year spent in prison.
Which means he would be eligible for 1.25 million dollars.
We have another innocent man at number 9.
Keith Allen Harward has just been released from prison after serving 33 yrs behind bars
for a crime he did not commit.
He was wrongfully convicted in 1982.
Keith was convicted of murdering Jesse Perron and rapinghis wife in Virginia.
Keith was released when he was 60 yrs old.
The innocence project tweeted this out when he was relased.
After 33 yrs of wrongful conviction.
#KeithHarward is finally Free.
So the really sad part about this is, Keith was able to out live his prison sentence but
his parents were not able to which means his parents passed away thinking there son was
a murderer.
Also Keith was denied going to his parents funeral.
So now he wants someone to pay for this.
Moving into number 8 we have Albert Woodfox who served 43 yrs behind bars.
Well actually Albert was Americas longest- standing solitary confinement prisoner.
Albert had no view of the sky from inside his 6ft by 9ft concreate box, he has had no
human contact.
Anyone in this situation would go crazy.
There are Scientific studies that have shown that you can inflict severe psychical damage
on an individual by putting them in solitary for just 1 week.
Alberts lawyers have been fighting for decades.
They have been saying this is an extreme and cruel punishment.
At number 7 we have Ricky Jackson who served 40 yrs.
Ricky was convicted at the age of 18 yrs old for a *** he did not commit.
Ricky was 58 yrs old when he was released and he was just released in 2015.
There was a federal lawsuit against the city of Cleveland and the police officers who Ricky
says helped frame him back in 1975.
This wouldn’t be the first case where police interfered with a investigations.
We all know the Brandan Dassey case, the kid from the Netflix orginals Making a murderer.
If you havn’t watched that show I highly recommend it.
Ricky when he was sentenced he was actually given the death sentence but later it was
commuted to a life n prison.
This just makes me think how many innocent people are in prison for decades.
Now a days we have a ton of technology that can avoid the mix up but there must still
be thousands of innocent people locked away due to lack of technology back in the day.
Number 6 we have a Guinness world record holder.
We are talking about Iwao Hakamada who is a Japanese former professional boxer who was
sentenced to death in 1968 for mass *** that had became known as the Hakamada Incident.
In 2011 he was awarded the Guinness world record for the worlds longest held death row
inmate.
In 2014 after being on death row for 46 yrs he was released.
This trial came to a huge shock to the Japanse public.
So appearently after 46 yrs a district court found there was reason to believe evidence
against him had been falsified.
Is this real life right now do we have another innocent guy who was on death row serving
almost 50 yrs for something he didn’t do.
Alright number 5 we have Betty Smithey who served 49 yrs in prison.
Betty walked into prison with a life sentenced for *** and at the age of around 70 yrs
old she is now walking out with a cane.
Betty is Americas longest serving female inmate.
She was behind bars for the *** of a 15 month old child by strangling the baby while
she was baby sitting.
The court sentenced her to life without parole.
After years went by her sentenced was lowered to just 48 yrs to life.
Moving into number 4 we have Patrick Maloney who just walked out of an Arizona prison after
spending nearly 50 yrs in Prison for killing his mother and his stepfather back in 1964.
Patrick was released at the age of 65 yrs old which means he was only 15 yrs old when
he committed those horrible crimes.
That just doesn’t sit well in my stomach.
For almost 50 yrs Patrick has been fighting to be released from jail.
He was first sentenced to life in prison, then he had a death sentenced but it was turned
to life again.
Patrick started working with attorneys from the Justice Project and that was when he was
granted hearings in a superior court.
The US Supreme court decided that having a life sentence without the possibility of parole
for a juvenile murderer is just to cruel and actually an unusual punishment under the Eighth
Amendment of the constitution.
I think if you murdered you should just be forgotten about.
Maybe I am just to harsh.
Number 3 we have John Hall who is actually still in prison but with a law that is now
outlawed John has a great chance of getting out of jail very soon.
John has been fighting for his life since he was 17 yrs old after he received a life
sentence for his role in a back-alley killing in Detroit that claimed the life of a 63 yr
old man.
The US Supreme Court outlawed mandatory life sentences for juveniles a judge gave John
a potential second chance at life in re-sentecinghim to 40-60 yrs in prison.
After have already served 50 yrs in 10 more years John Hall should for sure be released.
Number 2 we have Earl Reinhardt who is now set free after being in Prison for 50 yrs.
Earl was released when he was 75 yrs old and when he as released he became homeless because
he had no money, and no family members to help him out.
Earl has been trying to keep warm in Library’s, eating at soup kitchens.
Earl actually ended up in a nursing home because he just couldn’t take care of himself.
There is not a lot of information on this guy because it just seems like society has
forgotten about him.
Well there you guys have it.
Finally at number 1 we have Machal Lalung from india who served 54 yrs in a Indain jail.
Machal was arrested at the age of 23 yrs old back in 1951 in his home village.
Machal was booked under section 326 of the indian penal code for causing grievous harm.
Which means he inflicted harm on someone maybe a stab wound or something.
This charge normally results in a sentence of no more than 10 yrs imprisonment.
Well here is where this story gets crazy.
The civil rights organization who investigated the case later found no substantial evidence
to support the charge.
Less than a year after his arrest he was transferred to a pshychiatic institution in Tezpur, India.
Doctors there certified Machal as fully fit but instead of being released he was transferred
to a jail where he was forgotten about.
So Machal has been in jail for 54 yrs for no reason at all he wasn’t even sentenced
to anything.
Really sad if you asked me.
He was just simply forgotten about I have no idea how something like this goes on for
over 50 years.