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Christmas Day in a Louisiana Dungeon: Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace Sent Back to Solitary

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ira Glasser Former Executive Director, ACLU Posted December 25, 2008 Christmas Day in a Louisiana Dungeon This is a story about a double crucifixion happening on the very day that hundreds of millions of Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. It happened yesterday, too, and it will happen tomorrow, unless people of good will and moral decency rise up and stand against it. The story begins nearly 40 years ago. At that time, it was unthinkable, literally, to imagine a day when a black man might be elected president. Indeed, in some parts of the country, it was still dangerous for a black man to vote, or organize against the oppressive system of racial subjugation that still prevailed despite the recent legal victories of the civil rights movement...continue to full post

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