How would you feel if you had to spend 43 years in prison for a crime you hadn't committed?
This is the story of Kevin Stickland, accussed of a triple murder in 1978 when he was 18 years old and now released from the Western Missouri correctional center.
Read this very interesting article published in The Guardian.
Strickland says he’s not angered by four decades of incarceration. Anger is a luxury for others, he says, but one that he does not have an inclination to indulge. “I can’t waste energy in anger, so I don’t get angry, because anger sometimes make you get physical. Anger is a strong word and it brings on negativity. I’m just disgusted and disappointed about what has happened to me.”
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“The justice system doesn’t have to change,” Strickland says. “It has to be re-booted from the ground up. The police are relying on civilians to call in tips. They need to find detectives who want to do their jobs, and not rely on civilians to tell them which way to go.”
