Solitary: unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope
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"[This] is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement--in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana--for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge from his odyssey within America's prison and judicial systems with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world. Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, Albert was behind bars in his early twenties when he was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a 50-year sentence in Angola prison in Louisiana for armed robbery when on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were immediately accused of the crime and put in solitary confinement by the warden. Without a shred of actual evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice that gave them life sentences in solitary. Decades passed before Albert gained a lawyer of consequence; even so, sixteen more years and multiple appeals were needed before he was finally released in February 2016. Remarkably self-aware that anger or bitterness would have destroyed him in solitary confinement, sustained by the shared solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the grinding inhumanity and corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Albert survived to give us Solitary, a chronicle of rare power and humanity that proves the better spirits of our nature can thrive against any odds."--Dust jacket.
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African American political activists -- Louisiana -- Biography.
African American prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
Crime and race -- Louisiana.
Ex-convicts -- Louisiana -- Biography.
False imprisonment -- United States -- Personal narratives.
Judicial error -- United States.
Lawyers -- Malpractice -- United States.
Legal ethics -- United States.
Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Louisiana.
Prisoners -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Solitary confinement.
Trials (False imprisonment) -- United States.
Woodfox, Albert.
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Woodfox, A., & George, L. (2019). Solitary: unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope. First Grove Atlantic paperback edition. ©2019, Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Woodfox, Albert and Leslie, George. 2019. Solitary: Unbroken By Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. ©2019, Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Woodfox, Albert and Leslie, George, Solitary: Unbroken By Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. ©2019, Grove Press, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Woodfox, Albert, and Leslie George. Solitary: Unbroken By Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. First Grove Atlantic paperback edition. ©2019, Grove Press, 2019.
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505 | 0 | |a In the beginning -- 1960s. The High Steppers ; Car chase ; Angola, 1960s ; Prison days ; Parole and back again ; Stickup artist ; Tony's Green Room ; Escape -- 1970s. Meeting the Black Panther Party ; What is the Party? ; NYC prison riot ; Hostages ; Angola, 1971 ; Herman Wallace ; April 17, 1972 ; CCR ; King arrives ; CCR wars ; My trial, 1973 ; Herrnan's trial, 1974 ; King is set up ; Gary Tyler 1 ; Food slots ; My greatest achievement ; Strip search battle -- 1980s. "I got you" ; Sick call ; The shakedown and the sham of the reclass board ; Comrades ; Contact visit ; Maturity -- 1990s. Justice delayed is justice denied ; My greatest loss ; Preparing for my trial ; Amite City ; The crusaders ; My trial, 1998 ; Back to Angola -- 2000-2010. We stand together ; Hidden evidence ; King leaves the belly of the beast ; Torture at Camp J ; Cruel and unusual ; "Are you still sane?" ; 2008 ; Never apart -- 2011-2016. Torture ; Forty years ; Man of steel ; The ends of justice ; Theories ; The struggles continues ; A plea for freedom, not justice. | |
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