Robinson, who inspired the law to keep registered sex offenders from taking photos of children was sentenced to 2 years in prison for possession of child porn.
Three years in the making, this documentary shows the harsh, bloody and disturbing reality of what life is really like inside Maine's solitary confinement unit.
Rene Lima-Martin was sent to prison for armed robbery when he robbed a video store in 2000. The sentence on eight convictions added up to 98 years. Martin got lucky though when in 2008, because of a clerical error, he was release 90 years too early. At least he thought he was lucky.
It has been extremely cold here in Maine and it hasn’t been any different all across the country, in fact it’s been so cold in Kentucky, a prisoner escaped from jail and returned the next day to turn himself back in. At a minimum security facility in Lexington, Kentucky, 42 year old Robert Vick escaped from Blackburn Correctional Center.
David Ranta spent 23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He was accused of the 1991 murder of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger after a failed jewelry heist the year before and was sentenced to 37 1/2 years in prison. Mr. Ranta, 58, was released Wednesday of last week after prosecutors admitted evidence against him has fallen apart over the years.