Angola Three Prisoner Set to Be Released After Four Decades in Solitary Confinement

[eridani]

Quite a few mass murderers get treated better.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/30633-angola-three-prisoner-set-to-be-released-after-four-decades-in-solitary-confinement

A federal court has ordered the release of the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the US, who has been in isolation almost without pause for 43 years.

Albert Woodfox, the only remaining imprisoned member of a group of prisoners know as the Angola Three, has been in solitary since 18 April 1972 after a prison riot that resulted in the death of a guard.

A ruling by the US court of appeals for the fifth circuit in November gave the 68-year-old his greatest hope of release when it overturned his conviction, but he was charged again at state level in February.

On Monday a district court ordered his immediate release and barred the state from holding a second retrial.

The court said it had found at least five factors in Woodfox’s favour, including his age and poor health and his limited ability to present a defence at a third trial in the light of the unavailability of witnesses.

[misterhighwasted]

1. Living like its 1972. He has much to learn.

I wish him well.

[johnnyreb]

2. Mr. Woodfox can finally leave the warden behind in his own time trap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola_Three

The Warden of Angola and Hunt prisons, Burl Cain, has repeatedly suggested that Woodfox and Wallace must be held in solitary because they subscribe to “Black Pantherism.”

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"In a 2008 deposition, attorneys for Woodfox asked Cain, 'Let’s just for the sake of argument assume, if you can, that he is not guilty of the murder of Brent Miller.' Cain responded, 'Okay, I would still keep him in CCR… I still know that he is still trying to practice Black Pantherism, and I still would not want him walking around my prison because he would organize the young new inmates. I would have me all kind of problems, more than I could stand, and I would have the blacks chasing after them.'"