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Annie Flanagan

Annie Flanagan is a New Orleans-based filmmaker, photographer and educator. She her work has been featured by The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post, among others.

“Time is weird in prison,” says Ricky Jackson, in Cleveland near the scene of the murder he was wrongly convicted of in 1975, “because you don’t see a lot of change.”

After 39 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment, Ricky Jackson Is Finally Free

Locked up for a murder he didn’t commit, he served the longest sentence of any U.S. inmate found to be innocent