BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – “Most of my life was taken away from me for something I didn’t do,” said Wilbert Jones.
Jones spent more than 45 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he did not commit. Now free, he has one wish before he loses his sight entirely: to travel and see the places he could only imagine from inside a cell.
Jones’s ophthalmologist has told him his glaucoma has progressed significantly and that he is losing his vision. His family said they are now in a race against time and his remaining sight.
Exonerated after decades
Jones was 19 years old when police arrested him on suspicion of raping a nurse in 1971. He was convicted in 1974 and spent more than 45 years behind bars — wrongfully…