Media

Below you will find some of the most recent/ important media coverage of the Angola 3 case. We will be updating this list whenever we get coverage, so please check back often!

A3 Milestones in the News

Albert Woodfox's Conviction Overturned after 36 Years In Solitary
Watch Television Clips 29 September 2008

Federal Magistrate Judge Recommends Overturning Albert Woodfox's Conviction
Watch Television Clips 13 June 2008

Louisiana Representative Cedric Richmond Announces Louisiana Legislative Hearings
Watch Television Clips 28 April 2008

Congressman John Conyers Visits Herman and Albert in Angola - 4 Days Later They Are Released From Solitary
Watch Television Clips 20 March 2008

Recent Press Coverage

Mother Jones Court Reverses Appeal of Angola 3's Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement
22 Jun 2010

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Mother Jones
Date: 22 Jun 2010

Court Reverses Appeal of Angola 3's Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Albert Woodfox has spent nearly all of the last 38 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. His case has brought protests from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who argue that Woodfox’s decades in lockdown constitute torture, and from a growing band of supporters, who believe that he was denied a fair trial. For more than ten years, he has been fighting for his release in the courts. But yesterday, a ruling by a federal appeals court ensured that for the forseeable future, Albert Woodfox will remain right where he has been for nearly four decades: in a 6 x 9 cell in the heart of America’s largest and most notorious prison.

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New York Times Prisoners of Angola
18 Jun 2010

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New York Times
Date: 18 Jun 2010

Prisoners of Angola

To the Editor:

One might get the impression from the review of Wilbert Rideau’s “In the Place of Justice” (June 13) that the racism and plantation brutality of Angola prison in Louisiana are largely a relic of the past. But there are two black men, now in their 60s, who have been in solitary confinement for nearly 40 years because of their political activities in behalf of prison reform. They were almost certainly framed for the murder of a white prison guard back when Angola was known as the bloodiest prison in the South, and when armed prisoners and sexual slavery were normal and encouraged, as the review of Rideau’s book points out.

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The Guardian 37 years of solitary confinement: the Angola three
10 Mar 2010

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The Guardian
Date: 10 Mar 2010

37 years of solitary confinement: the Angola three

In 1972, three men in a Louisiana prison were placed in solitary confinement after a prison guard was murdered. Two of them are still there – even though many believe they are innocent

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London Evening Standard A wrong that must be righted: behind the bars of Angola
10 Mar 2010

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London Evening Standard
Date: 10 Mar 2010

A wrong that must be righted: behind the bars of Angola

Bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River, the Louisiana State Penitentiary is the biggest prison in the United States. They call it The Farm. It was built on the site of a former slave plantation, many of the enslaved coming from the part of Africa that gives another name to the prison: Angola, an institution now famed in legend and song, where certain prisoners are known to have spent their whole lives

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Maine Sunday Telegram Ex-prisoner speaks to further bill
11 Feb 2010

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Maine Sunday Telegram
Date: 11 Feb 2010

Ex-prisoner speaks to further bill

Proposed legislation would limit how long a Maine inmate can be held in an isolation cell.

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