Man freed after 3 decades in prison vows never to return

Sunday, November 22, 2015

DEER LODGE, Mont. -- A man whose 100-year murder sentence was commuted by Montana's governor walked out of prison still clad in the blue shirt of an inmate, shivering in the 25-degree weather that greeted him after three decades of incarceration.

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