ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Stepping back into the world can be overwhelming for exonerees who have served decades-long sentences for crimes they did not commit. That's why an Alamance County farm aims to give them their second chance. "They haven't had any kind of transition services in prison and they're going from zero to 60 when they get out into a society that's changed incredibly when they went in," said Chris Mumma. These people don't always have somewhere to live. They may not be connected to their family or to friends. These are the people Mumma has spent her life fighting for with the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence. Mandy Locke covered cases like these as a reporter for a Raleigh newspaper. "I think there's this wrong-headed notion that reporters don't feel," Locke said. "You're supposed to be robotic. You're supposed to be detached, and the reality is when you watch people struggle and watch them really wrestle with pain, the injustices or disregard for society, you feel that." Now, she can be part of the solution. Both Mumma and Locke felt that pain with a man named Joseph Sledge, who spent 37 years behind bars for a double murder that he did not commit. Finally, in 2015, there was a breakthrough when long-forgotten evidence resurfaced, evidence that helped to overturn Sledge's conviction. "When he got out, it was completely overwhelming for him, trying to figure out who he was, why it happened to him, what his purpose was," Mumma said. "He was desperate to have purpose for what he went through." Sledge took his own life five years after he got out of prison. "He always just wanted to sit in the rocking chair and watch a garden grow and he never got to do that," Mumma said. While he didn't have that opportunity, Mumma and Locke hope that they can help make sure others will.