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

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Court Reverses Appeal of Angola 3's Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | June 22, 2010 From Solitary Watch 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...continue to full post

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