Richard Miles was a teenager when he was arrested and accused of murder. Wrongfully convicted, he spent 15 years in prison before being released at age 34 in 2009. Now, he's on a mission to help others.
Dallas Richard Miles was a teenager when he was arrested and accused of murder. At 20, he was sentenced to 60 years behind bars.
He was an innocent man. "I oftentimes say, 'May 15, 1994 is the day that Richard Ray Miles, Jr. died.' I became a number -- 728716." Miles spent the next 15 years in a Texas prison. He was 34 when he was released in 2009. "I was overwhelmed. I was 34 years old in age, but I was 19 from society standpoints. I had not dealt with the world, and I was literally scared," he said."I didn't know about taxes and employment. The world was totally different.
CNN Heroes: Miles of Freedom 03:18"I saw firsthand these points of despair for people coming home from prison. Yes, they committed a crime, but a lot of them wanted to do better, and they were just not in a space to do better," said Miles, now 44.The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. More than 2 million adults were imprisoned or jailed in the United States by the end of 2016, according to recent federal statistics.
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