16. That is how old you are when you are convicted of a crime you weren't even involved in. How can you ever get out of these prison bars keeping you back from all of your hopes and dreams that you spent your whole life trying to reach. How would you fell if you were convicted of a crime because of your skin color? What if the cops lied to you, just to get a confession so that they could go home and live their life and get the reward of honor?
When a woman is found dead and the cops bring in four boys all around the age of 16 and tell them that if they admit to the murder they could go home. They admitted to the murder. They never went home. 15 years. That is how long they were in prison convicted of a crime that they did not commit. They were raped, beat, and stabbed while in prison. Now being exonerated from the crime, they had to rebuild their lives from scratch, they couldn't just pick up where they left off.
My reaction to this story, honestly made me sick. How could you skip around the truth to make your day easier, to not take pride in your work? Those kids were in prison because someone felt lazy and didn't want to do more work. Those police do not deserve to be police because they took away four peoples' lives from them for fifteen years. I hope that for any of those cases that are like this one were people were tricked into 'admitting' a crime, that they are exonerated because they deserve that.
