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Jackson was convicted of burglary for stealing a wallet from a Myrtle Beach hotel. Police arrested him when he tried to use the stolen credit card at a pancake house.

Since Jackson’s court-appointed attorney failed to properly prepare for trial and did not even know the charges against him, Jackson chose to represent himself but says he did not understand anything during his trial.

Because of prior convictions for burglary, Jackson was sentenced to mandatory life without parole under South Carolina’s three-strikes law.

“I felt hurt and afraid of the ending of life,” Jackson says of his sentencing. “You will think that I killed someone with that kind of time.

Jackson speaks weekly with his mother. He says his drug addiction motivated the crime for which he was sentenced to die in prison.

When he requested substance abuse treatment while serving time for a prior burglary conviction, he reports he was denied treatment. Jackson says, “I begged them for help. They said no.”

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