An Unlikely Journey

Dit zijn verhalen van mensen die terechtkwamen op een weg die zij nooit hadden willen bewandelen.

This is about people whose lives took a path they never chose.

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1 US man walks free after 40 years wrongly imprisoned

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2 How I spent 32 years in prison | George Martorano | TEDxPenn

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TEDx Talks

Gepubliceerd op 6 jul. 2016
 

George Martorano is a self-taught prolific writer, poet, educator, and mentor. While in prison, George became a role model and a positive influence in the Federal Bureau of Prisons to impact the lives of the inmates living alongside him. He worked with what he had and what he knew and explains how he gained the strength to push forward even in the hardest times of his life.

Released in October 2015 under the Department of Justice’s Compassionate Release program, George is the longest incarcerated non-violent offender. While in prison, he taught inmates yoga, prevented the hijacking of an aircraft by inmates, started a creative writing course, authored 31 books, pioneered a prison course called Release Preparation: Starting a Business for Under $1,000, among others. He has been featured in Philly Mag and Salem News and is now sought out to be featured by the United Nations. He resides in Philadelphia and continues to write and inspire others.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

3 Chicago: The false confession capital

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Gepubliceerd op 9 dec. 2012

 
It’s hard to believe people would confess to a heinous crime they didn’t commit, but they do — especially teenagers — and there is no place in the U.S. where this has occurred more than in Chicago. Byron Pitts reports.

4 Evidence of Innocence: The case of Michael Morton

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Gepubliceerd op 25 mrt. 2012

 
After nearly 25 years in prison, Michael Morton was exonerated by a DNA test. Did a prosecutor hide evidence that could have proven Morton’s innocence during his 1987 trial?
 
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5 Anita Alvarez keeps innocent people in prison

Gepubliceerd op 28 feb. 2016

Learn more at FireAnita.com

6 – 60 Minutes Australia: Bad Cop, Good Cop (Part 1)

Gepubliceerd op 10 apr. 2018

 
In a special edition of 60 MINUTES, Channel Nine, reveals the sordid truth about former NSW Detective Roger Rogerson. A jury found 75-year-old Rogerson guilty of murdering 20-year-old university student Jamie Gao. The murder conviction is proof of what many people have long suspected about Roger Rogerson – that he is evil beyond belief. It’s an enormous fall from grace for the highly decorated one-time star of the New South Wales police force. In the 1980s Rogerson was viewed as a potential future police commissioner. But it was all a lie. In reality he was a bad cop, as crooked as they come.
 
For the first time, retired good cop, Mick Drury, reveals all to 60 MINUTES about Rogerson’s involvement in the assassination attempt on him in front of his young family. And Drury’s account of his battle to expose Rogerson’s corrupt ways is just the beginning of the real history of the most notorious rat in police ranks.
 
60 MINUTES also speaks exclusively to Sascha Huckstepp, the daughter of whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp who was brutally murdered in 1986. Just years before her death, Sallie-Anne famously claimed to 60 MINUTES that Rogerson had murdered her boyfriend, Warren Lanfranchi. For the first time, Sascha talks about her belief about Rogerson’s role in her mother’s killing.

7 – 60 Minutes Australia: Bad Cop, Good Cop (Part 2)

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Gepubliceerd op 10 apr. 2018

 
In a special edition of 60 MINUTES, Channel Nine, reveals the sordid truth about former NSW Detective Roger Rogerson. A jury found 75-year-old Rogerson guilty of murdering 20-year-old university student Jamie Gao. The murder conviction is proof of what many people have long suspected about Roger Rogerson – that he is evil beyond belief. It’s an enormous fall from grace for the highly decorated one-time star of the New South Wales police force. In the 1980s Rogerson was viewed as a potential future police commissioner. But it was all a lie. In reality he was a bad cop, as crooked as they come.
 
For the first time, retired good cop, Mick Drury, reveals all to 60 MINUTES about Rogerson’s involvement in the assassination attempt on him in front of his young family. And Drury’s account of his battle to expose Rogerson’s corrupt ways is just the beginning of the real history of the most notorious rat in police ranks.
 
60 MINUTES also speaks exclusively to Sascha Huckstepp, the daughter of whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp who was brutally murdered in 1986. Just years before her death, Sallie-Anne famously claimed to 60 MINUTES that Rogerson had murdered her boyfriend, Warren Lanfranchi. For the first time, Sascha talks about her belief about Rogerson’s role in her mother’s killing.
 
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Nick Greenaway

8 – 60 Minutes Australia: Bad Cop, Good Cop (Part 3)

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Gepubliceerd op 10 apr. 2018

In a special edition of 60 MINUTES, Channel Nine, reveals the sordid truth about former NSW Detective Roger Rogerson. A jury found 75-year-old Rogerson guilty of murdering 20-year-old university student Jamie Gao. The murder conviction is proof of what many people have long suspected about Roger Rogerson – that he is evil beyond belief. It’s an enormous fall from grace for the highly decorated one-time star of the New South Wales police force. In the 1980s Rogerson was viewed as a potential future police commissioner. But it was all a lie. In reality he was a bad cop, as crooked as they come.
 
For the first time, retired good cop, Mick Drury, reveals all to 60 MINUTES about Rogerson’s involvement in the assassination attempt on him in front of his young family. And Drury’s account of his battle to expose Rogerson’s corrupt ways is just the beginning of the real history of the most notorious rat in police ranks.
 
60 MINUTES also speaks exclusively to Sascha Huckstepp, the daughter of whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp who was brutally murdered in 1986. Just years before her death, Sallie-Anne famously claimed to 60 MINUTES that Rogerson had murdered her boyfriend, Warren Lanfranchi. For the first time, Sascha talks about her belief about Rogerson’s role in her mother’s killing.
 
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Nick Greenaway

9 – 60 Minutes Australia: Bad Cop, Good Cop (Part 4)

Gepubliceerd op 10 apr. 2018

 
In a special edition of 60 MINUTES, Channel Nine, reveals the sordid truth about former NSW Detective Roger Rogerson. A jury found 75-year-old Rogerson guilty of murdering 20-year-old university student Jamie Gao. The murder conviction is proof of what many people have long suspected about Roger Rogerson – that he is evil beyond belief. It’s an enormous fall from grace for the highly decorated one-time star of the New South Wales police force. In the 1980s Rogerson was viewed as a potential future police commissioner. But it was all a lie. In reality he was a bad cop, as crooked as they come.
 
For the first time, retired good cop, Mick Drury, reveals all to 60 MINUTES about Rogerson’s involvement in the assassination attempt on him in front of his young family. And Drury’s account of his battle to expose Rogerson’s corrupt ways is just the beginning of the real history of the most notorious rat in police ranks.
 
60 MINUTES also speaks exclusively to Sascha Huckstepp, the daughter of whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp who was brutally murdered in 1986. Just years before her death, Sallie-Anne famously claimed to 60 MINUTES that Rogerson had murdered her boyfriend, Warren Lanfranchi. For the first time, Sascha talks about her belief about Rogerson’s role in her mother’s killing.
 
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Nick Greenaway

10 Man Mistakenly Freed From Prison… Guess What Happens Next

Gepubliceerd op 26 sep. 2014
A Colorado convict sent back to prison after being mistakenly released 90 years early is now saying it was cruel and unusual punishment to put him back behind bars after he reformed his life. An appeal filed in the case of Rene Lima-Marin says his constitutional rights were violated when a judge ordered him to finish his sentence after he started a family during nearly six years of freedom. He was convicted in 2000 of multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping and burglary after he and another man robbed two video stores at gunpoint when he was 20. A judge issued him back-to-back sentences for a total of 98 years in prison. In 2008, he was released on parole because of a clerical mistake, and for the next six years, he lived as a free man with his wife and children. Now, he’s being sent back to jail, and the district attorney’s office says that he should have spoken up if he knew he was being released early.

Was his original sentence too much? Have you ever felt like you’ve had your freedoms taken away from you?

11 Angola Christian prisoners speak to youth

Gepubliceerd op 23 okt. 2012

 
Stories from Louisiana State Penitentiary – Angola, Louisiana

Delay of justice is injustice

A fascinating story by the second grandson of Nelson Mandela: a real witness of history – a remarkable story.

12 Dog Hot Dog Prank

28 apr. 2011

 

And by sausage dog we mean the actual wieners are made of dogs. As in, we just fed you dog meat without telling you and now we’re telling you so there’s really no need to be that upset.

 
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