After 1 / 4 century behind bars, Brandon Jackson is preventing Louisiana’s newest Jim Crow legislation.
In 1997, Brandon Jackson was convicted of against the law he stated he didn’t commit. An Applebee’s restaurant outdoors Shreveport, Louisiana, was robbed for $6,500. Nobody was injured. There was no bodily proof connecting him to the crime.
At trial, two jurors voted in favor of his acquittal. In 48 states, his trial would have been a mistrial and he may need walked free, however Jim Crow-era Louisiana legal guidelines, designed to lock up black defendants, allowed non-unanimous jury convictions. Jackson was sentenced to life in jail.
Conviction begins within the days after Brandon Jackson’s conditional launch after 25 years in jail. The movie follows Jackson as he grapples with agoraphobia, paranoia, and alienation introduced on by a quarter-century of unjust imprisonment.
The menial work out there to him evokes reminiscences of the slavery-like circumstances in Louisiana’s well-known plantation prisons. He fights a probation system that calls for greater than $11,000 in charges and sends brokers to his home earlier than daybreak. He concludes that he’s “free however not free.”
Over time, he finds group in a help group for previously incarcerated individuals and a way of function in advocating to overturn Louisiana’s final Jim Crow legislation.
Conviction is a portrait of 1 man’s quest to adapt to life on the skin and assist the greater than 1,500 individuals he left in jail with non-unanimous Jim Crow sentences.
