Tag: solitary confinement
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Louisiana prisoner Albert Woodfox freed after four decades in solitary confinement
Today, Louisiana prisoner Albert Woodfox walked free, more than 40 years after he was first put into solitary confinement. He was the United States’ longest serving prisoner held in isolation. Nearly every day for more than half of his life, Albert Woodfox woke up in a cell the size of a parking space, surrounded by…
