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'Angola 2' Leave Solitary Cells in La. After 36 Years....changing cells is not enough!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Listen to the story.... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89140779 'Angola 2' Leave Solitary Cells in La. After 36 Years by Laura Sullivan Morning Edition, March 27, 2008 ? Two former Black Panthers imprisoned in Louisiana are out of solitary confinement for the first time since the 1970s. State corrections officials say Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were moved into a "maximum security dormitory" earlier this week. Louisiana prison officials once said the men, known as the Angola 2, would never be moved. Nick Trenticosta, lawyer for Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, two of the "Angola Three," issued the following statement in response to Louisiana State Penitentiary's decision to move his clients from solitary confinement to a separate dormitory: "Herman and Albert need to be released from prison because they are innocent: they were framed for a murder they did not commit...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).