Sentenced to life for stealing $14: ‘I needed help, but was given jail’

[Afro]

Sentenced to life for stealing $14: ‘I needed help, but was given jail’

David Coulson, imprisoned in California under ‘tough on crime’ laws from the 90s, was released after decades: ‘Finally someone has heard me’

www.theguardian.com

At the time of the 2002 offense, in which he took loose change from an unlocked garage, Coulson, then 35, was living on the streets of Long Beach and deep in the throes of drug addiction. He was also struggling with mental illnesses after surviving significant childhood abuse. Despite his documented health crises, and having no violent crimes on his record, a judge ordered him to be locked up for life, saying he could only be considered for release after 35 years.
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[Unknown Poster]

Meanwhile white people literally get away with murder in America...

fukk this country

 

[Easy-E]

All due respect to Brittany Griner; she was a grown woman and a pro in Russia for 7 years.

And I gotta hear about that every day on Twitter.

This is the reality for black men, but, we get shyt out by politicians when things don't go their way.

 

[Umoja]

They need to publicise the judge. I'm all for being tough on crime but what happened to him was pure cruelty.

 

[TRUEST]

Nah. Theres gotta be a task force created by black billionaires to make sure every single one of these guys are freed. And to sue the government for reimbursement. Fuccking bullsh1t

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Nah. Theres gotta be a task force created by black billionaires to make sure every single one of these guys are freed. And to sue the government for reimbursement. Fuccking bullsh1t

Innocence Project.

It's a great charity that needs donations to free brehs unjustly imprisoned