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Pawn Power
7th March 2009, 16:31
With one of the Angola 3 out, two remain in solitary confinement. One of them, Albert Woodfox, has a chance to see light as the court hears his case on Tuesday. However, there are many people trying to keep him in his 6 by 9 foot cell- which he has been in for over 36 years.

Mother Jones article: 36 Years of Solitude (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/36-years-solitude)
Pawn Power
7th March 2009, 16:34
It is rare for a prisoner to leave the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave plantation; it's estimated that 95 percent of the inmates will die behind bars. (The day before the hearing, the Pew Center released a report (pdf) (http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewcenteronthestatesorg/Fact_Sheets/PSPP_1in31_factsheet_LA.pdf%20) showing that one in 26 Louisiana adults is under correctional control, the largest percentage in the US and the world.) One who did make it out was Robert King, the third member of the Angola 3, released in 2001 after a judge overturned his conviction. "We hope this nightmare is finally ending," King told me at the hearing.

Angola 3 Dispatch (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/angola-3-dispatch-albert-woodfox-hearing)

Free the Angola 3 (http://www.angola3.org/)
Killfacer
7th March 2009, 20:44
Who are they? And dont say google is your friend.
Red Rebel
8th March 2009, 00:22
The Angola 3 were Black Panther members who arrested and tried in a racist court in the 1970s for "killing" a prison guard in a former slave plantation (now Angola prison). The orginal trial was hardly objective and the evidence against Woodfox and Wallace is questionable at best. Pawn Power posted the link to the Angola 3's website.

I truely hope that Woodfox can finally leave the Angola prison, Free the Angola 3!
brigadista
8th March 2009, 21:17
The Angola 3 were Black Panther members who arrested and tried in a racist court in the 1970s for "killing" a prison guard in a former slave plantation (now Angola prison). The orginal trial was hardly objective and the evidence against Woodfox and Wallace is questionable at best. Pawn Power posted the link to the Angola 3's website.

I truely hope that Woodfox can finally leave the Angola prison, Free the Angola 3!

i hope after all that time if they are released that their minds are intact ...that regime is brutal