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Ohio Man To Get Compensation For Wrongful Imprisonment

cleveland.com

The Ohio Court of Claims has ruled a Cleveland man will receive just over 1 million dollars from the state for wrongfully imprisoning him for 39 years.  58-year-old Ricky Jackson served more than 14 thousand days in prison for a murder he did not  commit. The State Controlling Board will pay the money. Two other men also wrongly imprisoned for the 1975 slaying of a businessman will seek state compensation - Kwame Ajamu and Wiley Bridgeman. Jackson was freed last November.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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