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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
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
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
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
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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