In 'Solitary,' Determination And Humanity Win Over Injustice
Albert Woodfox's timely account of his wrongful conviction and time in solitary confinement shows that some spirits are unbreakable; it should be required reading in an age of Black Lives Matter.
by Gabino Iglesias
Mar 05, 2019
3 minutes
By the time Albert Woodfox was 24 years old, he had already spent five years in and out of four prisons.
That was just the beginning. He would spend the next 40 years fighting a legal battle to clear his name of a murder he didn't commit. Throughout that process, he remained locked in solitary confinement, one of the longest stretches ever served by a prisoner.
Those four decades didn't break him; they made him stronger. is a candid, heartbreaking, and infuriating chronicle of these
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