Most people find it hard being locked indoors for a few weeks.

Imagine what decades of incarceration can do to you.

There are cases where people who were practically kids

got released as elders into a world that was vastly different

to the one they left when they were in prison.

Let's take a look at some people who have outlived the most insane prison sentences ever given.

Thomas Trantino. By his own admission, Thomas Trantino was a very sick and dangerous person.

Born in 1938, he'd become a serious substance abuser at just 14 years old, and had already spent six years behind bars by the age of 20.

On one terrible night in August, 1963, while heavily intoxicated, he took part in an altercation

that ended in the demise of two policemen at Trantino's hands.

Trantino turned himself in after 66 hours on the run, but claimed he didn't commit the crimes he'd been accused of.

However, with all the evidence pointing to the contrary, he was soon convicted of his alleged crimes.

Not only that, the jury decided he deserved the death penalty.

After being committed in 1963, he sat on death row until 1971 when New Jersey abolished the death penalty.

His sentence was then altered to life with eligibility for parole after 25 years.

But being on death row turned this broken man into something of a writer and an artist and saw him write and illustrate two books from behind bars.

I guess that's one way to pass the time.

In 2002, Trantino's parole was finally granted after he'd spent over 38 years total in the hole, making him the longest serving prisoner in the state of New Jersey.

Ricky Jackson. Could you imagine losing nearly 40 years of your life to a crime you didn't commit?

Unbelievably, that nightmare became Ricky Jackson's reality back in 1975.

At just 19 years old, Jackson and his friends Wiley and Ronnie Bridgman were convicted for a fatal attack on salesman Harry Franks.

The entire case hinged on the witness statement of a 13-year-old named Eddie Vernon, who claimed he saw the boys commit the heinous crime.

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