Wrongful conviction goes against everything we believe in within our society. We were taught from our earliest school to  believe in “innocence until proven guilty.” Like most wrongfully convicted persons, I believed that although I had been arrested and falsely accused of murder, our system would work itself out and I’d be acquitted. I sat in pre-trial detention in the Jackson County jail knowing I’d be acquitted and reclaim my life, but I would be proven wrong. Since the day of my conviction, I have awakened inside a prison cell serving a life term for a crime I did not commit and I have tried to approach each day with positively in spite of my situation. I’ve struggled to push out of my mind the injustice that occurred to me that lead me here and think positive and keep the faith, although I continue witnessing first hand so many negative outcomes that tug at my sense of hope.
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