Article 5ZZDJ Black Man Spent 27 Years in Prison for Murder He Didn’t Commit

Black Man Spent 27 Years in Prison for Murder He Didn’t Commit

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Kalyn Womack
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Black men make up 47 percent of exonerations while only accounting for 13 percent of the US population, per the Equal Justice Initiative. Charles Jackson was one of them. He was 27 when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. When he returned an innocent man two decades later, his daughter was the same...

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