#Repost bisowolf ... 😢 HE ENTERED PRISON AT 18… AND DIDN’T WALK FREE UNTIL HE WAS 57 In 1975, an 18-year-old Ohio teenager named Rickey Jackson was convicted of murdering a money-order salesman during a robbery in Cleveland. The case against him was shockingly thin. There was no physical evidence, no fingerprints, no DNA, and no weapon tying him to the crime. The prosecution’s case rested almost entirely on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who claimed he witnessed the shooting. Jackson was sentenced to death and sent to death row. Later, his sentence was reduced to life in prison, but the years kept passing. Birthdays came and went. Family members died. Opportunities vanished. While behind bars, Jackson read constantly, educated himself, and never stopped insisting he was innocent. He later described carrying a small “ember of hope” inside him even during his darkest days. Then, nearly four decades later, the case began to unravel. The boy whose testimony had sent Jackson to prison ...