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StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet Posted on August 11, 2008, Printed on August 11, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/94257/ "When I left Angola," says Robert King Wilkerson, who spent 29 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana's notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a crime he was later found innocent of, "I said, 'I may be free of Angola, but Angola will never be free of me.'" Since his release seven years ago, the vow has taken him to rallies, churches and talk shows across the globe. Earlier this summer, it brought him to Philadelphia for the first-ever StopMax Conference, where he told stories, analyzed the state of the American prison system and collaborated with a throng of like-minded activists determined to "end the use of solitary confinement and related forms of torture in U...continue to full post

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