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The Angola Three: Torture in Our Own Backyard

Hans Bennett, AlterNet. April 2, 2009.

Together, Robert King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace have spent more than 100 years in solitary confinement.

StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up

Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. August 11, 2008.

With former prisoners and their families at the helm, the movement to abolish supermax prisons and end solitary confinement is gaining ground.

"Angola is Still a Plantation": Fighting Back Against Legacies of Slavery

Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. June 12, 2008.

At Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison, which sits on a former slave plantation, prisoners are doing more than surviving. They are organizing.

Life in Solitary Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone

Brooke Shelby Biggs, AlterNet. April 17, 2007.

Americans shamefully imagine that spending a life sentence in solitary confinement could only happen in faraway countries. But two men in Louisiana's Angola prison know otherwise.

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