On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Federal judge Frederic Block on second chances — and 'who deserves it'

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In 1997, Walter Johnson was given five life sentences for robbery and drug offences. Decades later, he was released by the same judge who originally sentenced him. A conversation with that judge about the power of second chances. 

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