A Million Prison Days

Jerry is 48 years old now. He has lost virtually his entire adult life to a wrongful conviction. And he is the 200th person in the United States who has been exonerated through DNA evidence.

Combined, these 200 people have served about 2,500 years in prison - that's roughly a million nights in prison. More.

And of those executed?

I know not whether Laws be right,

Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in goal
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.

The Ballad of Reading Goal.