Albert Woodfox who served the longest time in solitary confinement of any prisoner in the United States has died at 75 from complications from Covid-19. He was held in isolation in a 6-by-9 foot cell for nearly 44 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. 🐈⬛ Known as one of the Angola Three, along with Robert King and Herman Wallace, Woodfox was convicted of killing a guard in jail, but always maintained his innocence. He says he was targeted for co-founding the first Black Panther chapter in Angola. He was released in 2016. His memoir is “Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope.” Woodfox says that while speaking to people around the country, he is often asked to describe what solitary confinement is like. “We never had a reference other than our own experience,” he says, “but this coronavirus pandemic, now people have a small window into what it is like.” @democracynow @smithsoniannpg @smithsonian @nationalportraitgallery @decolonizethisplace @innocenceproject 🙏🏽 #AlbertWoodfox #angola #NationalBookAwardFinalist #PoliticalPrisoner #freetheangola3 #angola3 #angolathree #SolitaryConfinement #RobertKing #HermanWallace #BlackPanther #BlackPanthers #BlackPatherParty #LouisianaStatePenitentiary #HungerStrike #antiRapeSquad #powertothepeople #allthepowertothepeople #arethaFranklin #aintNoWay ✊🏽 (at National Portrait Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg6Dp43uRb1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
