Penn State Public
Broadcasting recently produced an interview with Tyrone
Werts; in
1975 Tyrone Werts was convicted of second-degree murder and
sentenced to life
in prison without the possibility of parole.
Then, in 2010, after thirty-six years as a model
prisoner, his sentence
was commuted by former-Governor Ed Rendell. Werts now works
as a consultant to
the Philadelphia Public Defenders Association and with the
Inside-Out Prison
Exchange Program at Temple University.
In the
interview, Werts discusses his long road out of prison, his
thoughts on Pennsylvania's
"life means life" policy, and his reflections on justice five-year
period in juvenile detention facilities around the
country. The interview
along with information about Werts can be found at:
http://conversations.psu.edu/