BATON ROUGE — A man who spent nearly 46 years in Angola for a crime he did not commit is now racing against time to see America before he loses his vision entirely.
Jones was convicted in 1971 for the rape of a Baton Rouge nurse and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In 2017, Jones was released from prison on bail and then exonerated in 2018.
“Most of my life was taken away from me for something I didn’t do,” Jones said as he left confinement…