Freeing Freddie Bishop

In 1993, The ProJo published a deep profile of convicted murder Freddie Bishop by Dan Barry and Tom Mooney: Inmates dressed in regulation drab shuffle through the prison compound. They wend their way toward the dining hall, forming chains of khaki.

But one link stands apart.



His prison coat is bleached bone-white.



"#1" is stamped on his back.



"See that guy in the white coat," a prison administrator says, peering from a tower that looms over the compound. "That's Freddie Bishop."



As if on cue, Bishop looks up, grins, and nods.



Bishop, 50, has spent half his life behind bars for continuous acts of violence. For the last 19 years, he has been serving a life sentence for…