A man who spent 45 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit is now free - and he's selling art he painted from his jail cell to get by. According to a Michigan law, Phillips could be eligible for more than $2 million in compensation -- $50,000 for every year he spent wrongfully imprisoned. Phillips says painting was his escape while facing a life sentence in a Michigan prison. However, because of prison rules, he wasn't allowed to keep his art, so he sent them to a pen pal in New York for safe keeping. Once he was released, he said he visited the pen pal and was relieved to find more than 400 of his watercolor paintings in excellent condition.

Source: Fox News January 20, 2019 22:18 UTC