β Scribed by Albert Woodfox
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinementβin a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisianaβall 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 whole from his odyssey within America's prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the U.S. and around the world.
Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, inspired behind bars in his early twenties to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living, Albert was serving a 50-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and...
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