Imagine someone sitting on a cold concrete cement slab, in a tiny room with only one window, a few personal items, mostly books with a snoring person a few feet away. It may sound like college, but it is not. It is a prison. The memory of how the individual got to the prison bounces and rattles around in their brain as they stare at the cold, dark gray metal bars that are the barrier from them and the outside world. Wilbert Rideau is said to be the most rehabilitated prisoner in America, and he states that, “‘at some point long-term prisoners want to be better than they were before they went to prison. The most effective tools authorities have to encourage rehabilitation are to provide constructive outlets for prisoners' energies, positive …show more content…
When it comes to figuring out the actual number of people who were convicted for a crime that they did not commit, it is impossible. The National Registry of Exonerations is the only group that is tracking exonerations nationally and has already recorded more than 50 cases in the past year which a person has been convicted not guilty for a crime officially based on new evidence. The years that these prisons have stayed in prison is ranged from four years to thirty. With criminals that are in jail for something they did not do, it can really take an emotion effect on a person. Imagine that you are put in prison for a sentence of 30 plus years for a crime you did not commit and you do not have a way of getting a redo on your trial. You would mostly be upset that you lose the ability to see loved ones whenever, have good food, and have the freedom to go do whatever you want. Now with the criminals that are misplaced, with rehabilitation they can take classes and be put back into the real world faster. Since the criminal did not do the crime, they have more of a will to finish the classes and get back to the way of life they already know and