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Southern Injustice. Convicted of murder in a deeply flawed trial, Herman Wallace has spent nearly 37 years in solitary confinement. Will new evidence finally lead to his release?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Mother Jones Southern Injustice Convicted of murder in a deeply flawed trial, Herman Wallace has spent nearly 37 years in solitary confinement. Will new evidence finally lead to his release? By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | Tue Dec. 29, 2009 4:00 AM PST For the better part of four decades, Victory Wallace, 70, has made a monthly trip from New Orleans to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola to visit her brother Herman, who just turned 68. The 140-mile journey has shades of Heart of Darkness, following the course of the Mississippi River to a remote prison colony from which most inmates never return. At the dark heart of this former slave plantation, Herman Wallace has lived most of the past 37 years in solitary confinement, imprisoned alone for 23 hours a day in a 6-by-9-foot cell...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 29, 2009 (boomark / email).