What World Is This?

I help felons that most of society threw away long ago, never cared about to begin with because they were "just a statistic from the day they were born", were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and generally speaking got the raw end of the deal because the Justice system is and has been severely broken and corrupt for a very long time. The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is a HUGE money maker for the government and powers that be, and its free slave labor as well.

I want to tell you a story about a man named Herbert. He is 65 years old, and will be 66 on April 25th, the day before my birthday. I found him by scrolling through cases in CaseListener, and then went further into Justia. What I read immediately set off red flags.
Herbert was sixteen tender years of age when he woke up to go to school one morning in October in 1956, in a small town in Indiana. He went to his mother's bedroom to tell her he was leaving for school, when she did not answer he entered the room and said "Mom I'm leaving for sc