For those not old enough to remember the stories making headlines decades ago, Milgaard was the victim of one of Canada's most notorious miscarriages of justice. He was arrested when he was only 16. In 1969, at the age of 17, he was wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering Saskatoon nurse Gail Miller and sent to Canada’s toughest prisons. He spent almost 23 years behind bars before he was released in 1992 and exonerated by DNA evidence in 1997. In prison Milgaard suffered unthinkable inhumanity and horror that no one should endure - let alone an innocent person. The hardships led him to three suicide attempts in prison. He survived being shot in the back when fleeing from police after he had escaped in 1980 for 77 days as he grasped at the freedom he deserved.