After Innocence

Things I liked about the film, "After Innocence" is that there is actually of group out there that put so much effort into trying to find people who have been sent to prison for something they did not do and try to get out of prison. I also liked how the film showed the case of this guy named Wilton and he had been charged with two life sentences for rape and a DNA test showed that he was innocent. You can see a woman from the Innocent Project trying to call a prosecutor to try and get them to re-look Wilton's case and the prosecutor just kept making excuses, so they do not get to re-open the case. But you get to see the process of Wilton going to a hearing and listening to it. The judge ordered a Y-DNA test and it proved Wilton was innocent. The part I loved was when you see Wilton leaving the prison and finally being able to hug his parents and be at his parent's home for the first time in 22 years. Also, I liked that from all the men they showed, they all ended up doing good things, like one of them was trying to get their bachelor's degree in psychology. Another was reinstated back to being a police officer, others finding jobs, and getting married. It was good to see that after all those years they spent locked up in prison, they were able to get back up and resume back to their normal lives even if it was difficult for them at first. 

If I got a chance to sit and have lunch with one of them, I would like to talk to the people who are in the Innocent Project. I would like to ask them if they had any women that reached out to them or how many innocent women have they been able to free. Also how many people overall have they been able to help and free them.

One thing that really bugged me about this movie was that one of the men that had been wrongly imprisoned for 10 1/2 years and was released, wanted to get his record expunged but the courts told them that he had to pay 6,000 dollars to get it expunged. That made me mad because if he was innocent for the crime then why does he still have a record that he committed such crime? It makes no sense. It just makes an innocent person look bad and make it harder for them to find a job. If they are convicted of a crime and later proved innocent, there is no need to leave a record that he committed it when he did not. All the men that were in this film spent over 5 years in prison, at most 23 years, the least the courts can do for them is expunged their record at no cost. These men spend years they cannot get back, locked in a cell. It is only fair that their record of that particular crime is expunged. 

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