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As he was led off Tuesday to begin his latest prison term for his latest robbery conviction, Charles E. Jackson had a message for all the potential employers who had refused to hire him.

This, he said, was all their fault.

“All I wanted was a job,” Jackson lamented. “Won’t nobody hire me.”

Charged with the March 7 robbery of the SunTrust branch in the 1800 block of West Broad Street, Jackson agreed to a plea deal Tuesday morning in Richmond Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty to a sole count of robbery, and in exchange, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with 12 years suspended.

Before he was formally sentenced to spend another eight years of his life behind bars, Jackson, when asked if he had anything to say, told those in the courtroom that the robbery had grown out of his failed attempts to find a job after being released from prison in 2012.

“I done been in two programs while I was locked up, trying to learn something,” said Jackson, a high-school dropout. “It’s hard out there for a man just getting out.”

Jackson, 51, said he submitted applications for 29 different jobs in his quest to find work, and all 29 times, he wasn’t hired.

So he robbed a bank.