A Colorado convict sent back to prison after being mistakenly released 90 years early is now saying it was cruel and unusual punishment to put him back behind bars after he reformed his life. An appeal filed in the case of Rene Lima-Marin says his constitutional rights were violated when a judge ordered him to finish his sentence after he started a family during nearly six years of freedom. He was convicted in 2000 of multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping and burglary after he and another man robbed two video stores at gunpoint when he was 20. A judge issued him back-to-back sentences for a total of 98 years in prison. In 2008, he was released on parole because of a clerical mistake, and for the next six years, he lived as a free man with his wife and children. Now, he’s being sent back to jail, and the district attorney’s office says that he should have spoken up if he knew he was being released early.

Was his original sentence too much? Have you ever felt like you’ve had your freedoms taken away from you?

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