Angola 3 Member, Albert Woodfox, Who Served 43 Years in Solitary Confinement Dies

Date:  08-05-2022 Convicted twice in a correctional officer's death, courts overturned both convictions

From NOLA.COM: Albert Woodfox, whose lengthy incarceration at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, most of it in solitary confinement, became a rallying cry for prison reformers across the world, died Thursday at Ochsner Baptist Hospital in New Orleans of complications from COVID-19. He was 75. Woodfox was sentenced in 1971 to 50 years in prison for armed robbery. Three years later, he was convicted of killing a prison guard, although no physical evidence linked him to the crime. He served 44 years in solitary confinement, perhaps the longest such stint in U.S. prison history. Woodfox and the two other inmates accused in the murder, Robert King and Herman Wallace, became known as the Angola 3. Continue reading >>>