He went into prison as a 17-year-old convicted cop killer sentenced to mandatory life behind bars.
Forty-three years later, Charles Lewis, now a 59-year-old man with glasses, a slight paunch and a shaved head marked with patches of gray stubble, is still hoping to find freedom.
Lewis is one of 350-plus Michigan Department of Corrections inmates who had been serving a mandatory life sentence for crimes committed before they turned 18.
