Malcolm Alexander spent nearly four decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. But with the Innocence Project’s help, he finally went home and got to bring the dog he helped raise in jail home with him.
Malcolm was 21 years old in 1980 when he was sentenced to life in prison for rape. He said he was innocent then, and maintained his innocence in all the years since.
The Innocence Project got wind of Malcolm’s story and began to work on his case. The nonprofit legal organization is dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people and in January of this year (2018) they succeeded in freeing Malcolm.
He was absolved of the crime thanks to DNA evidence and finally walked out of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola a free man at 58 years old.
A day after he was freed, he reunited with someone he met behind bars – a puppy named Innocence (“Inn” for short).
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