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This episode mentions suicide and sexual assault.

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In the last episode, our team came home from court and looked into the parallels between mental health and incarceration.

So Missouri is reducing patient beds in mental hospitals at the same time that they are building new prisons.

And when you build a new prison that once upon a time was a hospital, sometimes you have the same people in it.

We've gone from treatment to punitive measures. And then when you get in prison,

you know, our prisons are like glorified dog kennels. You know, they're concrete and steel.

They're not places that people can go to get better. If you go to prison and you get better in Missouri, it's totally

by accident. We're now awaiting the decision from Sandy's evidentiary hearing, and we're hoping to

have a verdict this spring, and we'll keep you filled in along the way. In this episode, we're

shining light on Sandy's current state as she continues to serve her sentence at the Chilicothe Correctional Center.

We look into the prison where Sandy is incarcerated.

What it's like there and what life would be after 40 years in prison.

So I began to look into what resources are available for exoneries.

And through that, I learned something, that what resources are available for exoneries, and through that I learned something.

That those who are innocent and released from prison can have fewer services available to them than those who are found guilty.

And because I can't talk to Sandy right now, I wanted to speak to someone who had a similar experience.

A man who was exonerated from prison and didn't have the resources he needed on the outside. His name is Daryl Burton. You spell my name, D-A-R-R-Y-L,

Burton, B-R-T-O-N. I am an associate pastor at the United Methodist Church of the Redurrection.

I am also co-founder of Miracle of Innocence,

that is to help innocent people get out of prison and then help them once they come home.

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