Malcolm Alexander knows exactly what he'll do if he gets the money he's fighting for.

My dog, I want to get a broom. I need to get a tornadoes. I'll leave some. I'll pause cut.

He calls his dog in short for innocent. That's an important word for Malcolm Alexander because

he spent nearly 38 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, he's in a court

battle with the state of Louisiana for compensation for $400,000. What to me, it proves to be a

fall apology. The society Malcolm Alexander was forced to leave when he went into prison

in 1980 is radically different from the one he returned to when he was exonerated and

released in 2018. New technologies, a much different kind of economy. Alexander was able

to get a local government job in the drainage department six months after his release. He

and his wife are doing okay financially, but for Malcolm, it's about more than the money

itself.

I always say it's important to me because the fact that so much of my life has been taken

away because you know, you have to look at the fact that we was taking all the society

that is where you have an opportunity to grow it like to do something with yourself.

And of course, compensation from the state would mean a big upgrade for in.

And I built a dog house and I must have didn't build too sturdy because we just had that

stone up your eye and in blue dog house. So that's a wild.

Well, if it makes you feel better, that storm blew some proper houses down too. So I'm not

sure if any comment on your carpentry.

So I was sitting going out there really trying to get me some bricks and you know, it

actually built a brick dog house.

Consider this. Thousands of people have been exonerated in the US. For many, getting released

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