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36 years of solitude
March 13, 2009
An 18,000-acre complex that still resembles the slave plantation it once was, Angola Prison is where Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 has served nearly all of his time in solitary confinement – 36 years, 2 months and 24 days.
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Filed Under: Prison Stories
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Filed Under: Prison Stories
Tags: 16-hour workdays • Albert Woodfox • Amnesty International • Angola 3 • Angola Warden Murray Henderson • Anne Butler • Billy Wayne Sinclair • Black Panther Party • Black Pantherism • bloodiest prison in America • bloodstained shirt • Bobby Jindal • Brent Miller • Burl Cain • butler • Center for Equal Justice • Chester Jackson • Chris Aberle • Christian redemption • Christine Noland • egregious prosecutorial misconduct • freemen • fresh fishes • George Kendall • Herman Wallace • Hezekiah Brown • homemade knife • house boys • hunger strike • inmate-guard system • James Ridgeway • John Sinquefield • Joseph Richey • Kyle Duncan • Louisiana Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell Jr. • Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola • Mississippi River delta • Nick Trenticosta • racial segregation • Rep. John Conyers • Robert King • sexual enslavement • slave plantation • solitary confinement • Thorazine • trustees • Warden Murray Henderson
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