Louisiana Man Freed from Prison, 44 Years Later

Taylor Ellison
3 min readFeb 17, 2022
Vincent Simmons via The Free Vincent Project

Today marks the first birthday Vincent Simmons celebrates outside of prison since he was sentenced on July 28, 1977. Sadly, Vincent is now 70 years old, being sentenced at the age of 25, spending 44 years in prison for the conviction of the attempted aggravated rape of twin white girls.

According to The Free Vincent Project, Simmons was convicted to 100 years in prison based on…

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Taylor Ellison

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