Reply #10: 19 years? This guy spent 35 years in prison for stealing a television

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Man Who Spent 35 Years in Prison for Stealing TV Finds Freedom Frustrating

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBLBY5YMAE.html

GEORGETOWN, Ga. (AP) - As hard as it was to spend 35 years in prison for stealing a black-and-white television, Junior Allen has found freedom frustrating, too.

Despite extensive prison records in North Carolina, where he has spent more than half his life as inmate No. 0004604, Allen has been unable to establish his identity in rural Georgia, where he now lives with his sister, or in Alabama, where he was born 65 years ago to sharecropper parents.

The month long effort to get a birth certificate and photo ID only hints at the new challenge he faces - that of transforming himself from less-than-model inmate to average senior citizen.

"It's like I never existed," Allen says. "I went to Columbus, Georgia, and they said I had to go to Alabama. I went to Alabama and they said I had to go to Georgia."