#115 A Life Sentence – and Now Out
Criminal (In)justice
English - February 18, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 286 ratingsNews Government abuse brutality civilliberties corruption criminaljustice misconduct police policing prosecutors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Every year, courts hand out sentences of life without the possibility of parole to people convicted of serious crimes. Our guest today was one of those people, and he’ll tell us what that was like – and, with his sentence commuted, what his life is like on the outside, after 43 years.
Our guest is Robert Wideman, given a life sentence without parole at 25, and now free after Pennsylvania’s governor commuted his sentence in 2019.
Robert Wideman’s commutation story in the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette“Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison”
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