Just imagine spending so many years in jail when you're innocent and nobody believes you. Sad sad sad.

I can't even imagine being locked away for 60 years and then being freed into a world that is drastically different.

With a lot of these cases, you get the feeling the only reason they finally released these men was that they got to the age where they needed a lot of care and medical attention, and releasing them was just cheaper.

This is why I entered the criminal justice field! I want to help people who have endured such injustices. I cannot imagine losing decades of my life to wrongful imprisonment.

For the first time in my life, I thought, “$18 million ain’t shit.”

I can’t imagine spending almost half of my life in prison for something I didn’t do that’s sad.

I was actually in county jail with a man that had served over 40 in prison. The part of the video that said a law passed in 2016 that minors couldn't serve life without parole anymore is true. The man I was in jail with was Jason, he was almost 60 and got locked up at 16 and was being released because of that law. I played chess with him and asked him what was the first thing he was going to do when he gets out. He looked at me with a straight face and said," hug a tree". He was a very intelligent man. Never asked why he was in for, although I'm sure it was murder.

No amount of money can make up the time that guy lost in prison. Truly sad for that guy.

this proves in some cases how corrupt the court and prison systems are

No amount of money is enough to give back your entire life. YEARS lost because some racists. You only have one life. Thats so sick and makes me so angry I can't even.

People can never be repaid for the time that was taken from them. It's even more abysmal when you find out they were framed. How can anyone trust in the justice system with confidence?

18,000,000 would never be enough for half of my life taken away

Most of those black cases seems like they were framed in their teen age, wow!

People who outlived insane prison sentences Me: *IMPOSSIBLE*

Imagine getting sent into prison in a horse carriage and getting released in a car

Imagine being wrongfully convicted and released after decades then being told your pain and suffering mentally is worth a dollar amount 😩

I can't even finish this video.. Imagine you got accused and spent 30+ years of your life in some concrete box with a lot of murderers, for something you didn't do. 😢

Immortal: gets a 156 year sentence Also immortal: survives Prison:visual confusion

I wouldn't be able to move on knowing that I had just spent 65 straight years of my life in prison for somebody's else's "MISTAKE"

If I were wrongly imprisoned for half my life, there's no way I'd cope. I like to think I'd make it but I know I'm not nearly as strong as some of these people. That would be me done.

18 million wouldn't be enough for half my life imagine all the curfews in the prison OMG and I'm so not good with ristrictions

I've met someone like that in Florida, he was incarcerated since his early 20's and was released in his 60's/70's! He went back to the prison and said I want to come back home. All the family he had passed away so what was out here for him?

No amount of money, no amount of apologies, no amount of material possessions will make up for me being locked up for decades for a crime I know I didn't commit.

I may be wrong but from what I’ve heard is that people who spend long prison sentences like this and then get released all of a sudden don’t live long when they’re released because they’re so use to living in the inside.

They always releasing people when they get old they know exactly what they're doing

I came in as an young man and went out.. dead RIP

$18M is NOT enough! He spent 40yrs in jail for something he didn't do, and I know someone that's serving a life sentence in Louisiana rn and is innocent

What people don't realise is you get institutionalised when you serve a long prison sentence so to them, being released to our world can be just as frightening as if we were to be sentenced into their world.

Just remember, this shit STILL happends EVERYDAY!

I miss the "AMAZING" from the beginning of each video!😢

People: COVID IS SO HARD I CAN’T STAY INSIDE These guys: Am I a joke to you?

This 14 year old kid in 1970 got sentenced to death for a crime that he didn’t commit 😩

There’s a special place in Hell for those involved in purposely stealing the lives of innocent people under the guise of justice.

“Somehow” It’s bc he’s a BLACK MAN wearing a tan jacket. Not everything is about race but THAT was. A lot of these were.

He deserves 18 trillion

I was once detained in a holding cell for a few hours over some kind of mistake and I just about lost it.

It is so sad that innocent men lost so many years. I hope they have regained some happiness after release.

Staying home isnt so much of a big deal im neither an Introvert nor an extrovert but i find it fine staying indoors

How do you wait that many years knowing you lied. What was he afraid of at some point the cops who corerced him were either retired or dead.

Went to a nursing home, then volunteer to return to prison. Damn.

Maybe the government needs to review all those cases that have been jailed for life in the 1950s/60s.

america's justice system is a joke. like how do you imprison someone without evidence

How people think the wrongful convictions have NOTHING to do with race is INSANE.

The enlightenment is absolutely overwhelming ( Thanks for Sharing !)

You only get 1 life. Idc how much money I get I want my time back.

Otis Johnson’s story scares me. I had been stopped for the same exact reason in east Baltimore. I was probably like 12 or 13 and the officer explained there was a shooting nearby and that I fit the description: tall, black man wearing a tan jacket. I sat there for 10 min for him to realize that the man had a beard. The reason I was scared was because I has been sitting in front of my house for hours before I got up and ran into the office. I did NOT hear any gunshots or commotion. Very sus! I was just hoping that my child-like appearance would be a clear indication that i was not the suspect they needed.

The guy Rene that was released early to an error, I definitely could’ve forgiven him. No one was hurt and he did almost 10 years in jail.

I disagree that Otis Johnson was locked up in prison for 40 years because of wearing a tan jacket. The truth is that he was locked up for 40 years for wearing black skin

3:15 No, even if they paid me 1 trillion dollars it wouldn’t make up to half of my life lost in prison.

Be Amazed literally teaches everything in like 10 mins which our school teachers can't even in a week!!

“All because he was wearing a tan jacket” No it’s because he was black and just so happen to be wearing a tan jacket

That is crazy. No amount of money can make up for all that time spent in prison for a crime you didn't commit. I hope the policeman who cooerced the kid, gets life in prison.

I rather live broke n without house then being in jail

I'm sorry but the bright side voice? I don't mean to disrespect 🙇‍♀️

That's crazy .. 98 years in prison for a small time robbery where no 1 was even injured .. Doesn't seem fair to me

67 years and counting, incarcerated. That is a lonnnnnggg time! Started at 15... I thought if I was sentenced to life when I was 15, I woulda missed out on A LOT of my life. I am 51 years old. So SO much I would have not experienced. Praise God for 👀 over me when I more into the world

The innocent ones served the most insane sentences of course. I can’t even begin to imagine rotting away in prison let alone being innocent while doing so. How they kept their anger during such a travesty of justice shows they were good men...18 MILLION DOLLARS doesn’t begin to give them back their youth.

I can’t imagine going into prison and staying there for a long time to get out of there and the world be drastically different from when I went in.

Joseph Ligon was just released a few days ago. He had his sentence vacated. He served just over 67 years in prison.

To sentence a teenager to life for simple robbery shows the evil nature of the judicial system. Many of the convicted were clearly innocent and overwhelmingly Afrikan/Black.

To Be Honest,I Am Not Seeing This Video Too See People's Prison Sentences,But To See What Age They Were,When They Got Out Of Prison😐!!!!!

....."50 years of great tv to catch up on." And then you show a clip of Ellen. *UTTERLY HILARIOUS!!!!*

Officer: your free get out of here Prisoner: yayyy I’m finally free! 2020 & 2021: not a chance

No amount of money would be worth decades of my life, nope. You won’t die with the money, but you can die with good memories 🙏🏽❤️

The dislikes were made by prison inmates watching from prison

For half my life in prison I’d like to own the prison I was arrested in.

The narrator have me cracking up with laughter.

Wow I never thought I would see a story about a criminal kept in my own town , in Australia ! 😮

No amount of money will make me happy losing my freedom for 40 years

the DOJ really needs to step up there game.... come on now, 64 years of prison, it honestly cant take 64 years to review a case

Hell no. Money can't replace the time I missed with love ones.

18 mil and even i could retire a happy old man...

this became my favorite channel to binge watch when hangover 🖤

*Definetly wasn’t because he had a tan jacket it was because he had tan skin SMFH and he isn’t the only one sad to say*

5:30 Cuffs made of swing set chain LOL

18 million never felt so unworthy.

All of these cases are just sad.. spending YEARS for wrongful judgment and racism.

That 13 year old that later recanted should have been charged. Along with the cops who allegedly coerced him. And if he was on a school bus why did the other people on the bus never come forward?

Crime does pay!! Ask the judges, Prosecutors, lawyers, examiners.

Imagine a fellow inmate asked, “what are you in for?” “Wearing a tan jacket”

No breh- I want a billion bucks and give me my own company to run after you sentence me for something I didn't do

There should be a law against putting someone in jail if they’re innocent, or if there’s not enough proof that they committed a crime, look how many people have spent decades in jail for things they didn’t do, the judge should honestly get locked up

19:29 It's like the judge had his/her child play with a calculator and then came to court the next day and said "Yeah, that's how long this one's going in for"

That guy Lema's case was a rollercoaster of lows and highs.

I cannot imagine the way these people felt when they finally came out, it must have been so shocking, scary and confusing. So many African Americans were and still are being unjustly imprisoned

No amount of money would make me stay in prison for minutes nevertheless decades if I didn’t do what they said I did.

To be fair, releasing these people, when they are so old already, is really kinda cruel. Because as you pointed out, old people are treated worse than criminals these days. So "releasing" them, simply means taking away their housing, daily food, and free medical and dental services. Which is why the clever ones choose to stay inside.

14:14 "He was finally offered parole in 1974 but having spent more of his life in prison than outside, he declined. Prison has sadly become his entire world. The outside world was alien and unfamiliar to him now, especially considering his old age." I feel sorry for this guy, regardless how hideous his crime was. (っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ

No matter how high it is a life sentence is the highest. Period.

People in 2019: This is the worst year ever! People in 2020: Hold My Corona.

Tell me about it. I have been in prison for 40 years now for something everyone in my home town knows I did not commit. But because if my sentence were to be overturned, thousands of others would have to be released. My case started what has become know as the joiner issue. The first case in the history of the U. S. A were 1 trial was held for 3 cases that happen on different days in different places. I was 22 years old then. I'm 62 now with know relief in sight. That's what I get for being born Black in the U.S.A.

I feel so bad for how black people were and still are blamed for crimes they don't commit. I mean others are too but it just seems to happen more with the black community. Sorry for that💔

No amount of money can pay for missing out on all those years for no reason.... ...But it helps😁

Not sure why this person refers to their prison sentence as "INSANE" when murder fits the life sentence.

They come in as Mario and leave as Maria lmao

Imagine saying: “ Yea my grandpa just got out of jail”.

Grandparents really be like "back in my day we played OUTSIDE" Oh please back in your day children were being sentenced for life in prison

18 million is good. They deserve more but I'm. Glad each get 18 million to enjoy the rest of their lives

Just imagine how many people they killed that were not guilty

I think Jackson and his friends should have received More than just 18 million.. they lost half their lives doing Hard time. They deserved More