At nearly 80 years old, Robert Cheeks kept falling in the shower. Inside the Alabama prison where he had spent nearly four decades behind bars, other inmates were the ones left to help him bathe. “I’m ...
Cheeks spent 38 years in Alabama prisons, sentenced to life in prison without parole for a robbery in 1984 where no one was hurt. “I accepted that (I’d die in prison) because I didn’t see a way out….