From The Guardian:
Charles Amos spoke candidly about the crime he committed.
Against a black backdrop in front of a single camera at Louisiana’s Angola prison, 25 years after it happened, he spoke of his remorse, his rehabilitation and how prison had changed him.
“There’s so many things that I could’ve done better,” he said. “And now that I see it, how much better life could be … it hurts. I could be a blessing or a benefit in the lives of so many people. But the system don’t want to give me that opportunity.”
Amos was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1995, incarcerated since the age of 20. In his booking photo he stares down the lens, almost childlike, with piercing brown eyes. More than two decades later, the graying borders on his hair and beard are testament to how much time has passed.
Louisiana, America’s most incarcerated state, has sentenced people to life without parole at the highest rate in the country. Over half of those incarcerated, like Amos, were convicted of second-degree murder, sweepingly defined under state law and mandatorily sentenced to life. Continue reading >>>
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