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Great News: Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 to be released on bail after 37 years.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Woodfox and Wallace were each held in solitary confinement from the time of the murder until last March, after a federal court concluded that their suit alleging that such confinement for three decades constitutes cruel and unusual punishment could go forward. A third man, Robert King Wilkerson, was held in solitary at Angola at the same time for a different crime; he was released in 2001 after showing that he had been wrongfully convicted. The three are known as the "Angola 3." All black men, they had been organizing nonviolently for an end to gang-enforced sex slavery and for better conditions inside the prison. Angola at the time was known as the "bloodiest prison in the US." Angola 3 Member to Be Released On Bail After 37 Years Conviction Overturned, Judge Rules Albert Woodfox Must be Free During Appeals or Re-trial Albert Woodfox, who has spent 37 years in prison at Angola Penitentiary, must be released on bail, according to a ruling issued today by United States District Judge James Brady...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).