The Punishment
There is an ingredient that both of those scenarios are missing that probably made hampered their chance of success. Both were known as nothing but villains when they were tried unjustly. There was no room for any kind of sympathy, people didn't like them, and many outright hated them. If there was any fondness for the characters, it was a case of loving to hate them and nothing more. This is not the case with Young and the Restless' Kevin Fisher, who is managing to get a much better foundation for redemption than they've ever managed with his older brother Michael. We've already seen other facets of Kevin's personality besides being the man who preyed on Lily and torched Gina's. So when he gets the cuffs slapped on him, the chances of him garnering viewer sympathy is much higher. It has very little to do with him being accused for a crime he most likely didn't do. I mean many people suspected he did electrocute Brittany and still felt sorry for him on some level, so it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with him being tried for a crime he didn't commit.
Besides, there is one thing constantly missing from a person who goes to the slammer unjustly, the circumstances that would make them re-evaluate their lives. Think about it, a hardened criminal, someone who has raped, murdered, stolen, and/or assaulted people gets jailed for something he didn't do. He's going to cry? He's going to be so claustrophobic in a cell he's going to change his ways? I just don't buy it. All the bravado, cockiness, and guts it takes to be a soap villain is just going to disappear because he's in the slammer when he knows he didn't do it? Funny, I would think that would be the time they'd been even more confident. Knowing detectives are wrong, have nothing on them, and that eventually their slick lawyers will get them out, helps allay any fear they might have. Look at ATWT's James Stenbeck. He's in lockdown solitary, but he knows he can still wield power and he's gotten out of jail several times, he's merely biding his time. Why would he ever come out a changed man? In the real world, jail typically hardens a prisoner. Unless they find religion or their crimes were facilitated by drugs and alcohol and they've since gotten sober, criminals come out of
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