Quinton Pieters, who was sentenced to 163 years in prison for various crimes, remains hopeful that one day he will reclaim his freedom.

The nbc News team paid a visit to the inmate serving Namibia's longest sentence at the Evaristus Shikongo Correctional Facility outside Tsumeb.

Quinton Pieters, born in Keetmanshoop, says that as part of a gang, he has been in and out of jail since 1993 for committing different crimes.