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The Resource Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope, Albert Woodfox ; with Leslie George

Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope, Albert Woodfox ; with Leslie George

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"[This] is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement--in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana--for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge from his odyssey within America's prison and judicial systems with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world. Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, Albert was behind bars in his early twenties when he was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a 50-year sentence in Angola prison in Louisiana for armed robbery when on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were immediately accused of the crime and put in solitary confinement by the warden. Without a shred of actual evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice that gave them life sentences in solitary. Decades passed before Albert gained a lawyer of consequence; even so, sixteen more years and multiple appeals were needed before he was finally released in February 2016. Remarkably self-aware that anger or bitterness would have destroyed him in solitary confinement, sustained by the shared solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the grinding inhumanity and corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Albert survived to give us Solitary, a chronicle of rare power and humanity that proves the better spirits of our nature can thrive against any odds."--Dust jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
  • First Grove Atlantic Hardcover Edition.
  • First edition.
Extent
xi, 433 pages
Note
Includes index
Contents
  • Tony's Green Room
  • Escape
  • 1970s.
  • Meeting the Black Panther Party
  • What is the Party?
  • NYC prison riot
  • Hostages
  • Angola, 1971
  • Herman Wallace
  • April 17, 1972 ; CCR
  • In the beginning
  • King arrives
  • CCR wars
  • My trial, 1973
  • Herrnan's trial, 1974
  • King is set up
  • Gary Tyler 1
  • Food slots
  • My greatest achievement
  • Strip search battle
  • 1980s.
  • 1960s.
  • "I got you"
  • Sick call
  • The shakedown and the sham of the reclass board
  • Comrades
  • Contact visit
  • Maturity
  • 1990s.
  • Justice delayed is justice denied
  • My greatest loss
  • Preparing for my trial
  • The High Steppers
  • Amite City
  • The crusaders
  • My trial, 1998
  • Back to Angola
  • 2000-2010.
  • We stand together
  • Hidden evidence
  • King leaves the belly of the beast
  • Torture at Camp J
  • Cruel and unusual
  • Car chase
  • "Are you still sane?"
  • 2008
  • Never apart
  • 2011-2016.
  • Torture
  • Forty years
  • Man of steel
  • The ends of justice
  • Theories
  • The struggles continues
  • Angola, 1960s
  • A plea for freedom, not justice
  • Prison days
  • Parole and back again
  • Stickup artist
Isbn
9780802148308
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Label
Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope
Title
Solitary
Title remainder
unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope
Statement of responsibility
Albert Woodfox ; with Leslie George
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"[This] is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement--in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana--for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge from his odyssey within America's prison and judicial systems with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world. Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, Albert was behind bars in his early twenties when he was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a 50-year sentence in Angola prison in Louisiana for armed robbery when on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were immediately accused of the crime and put in solitary confinement by the warden. Without a shred of actual evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice that gave them life sentences in solitary. Decades passed before Albert gained a lawyer of consequence; even so, sixteen more years and multiple appeals were needed before he was finally released in February 2016. Remarkably self-aware that anger or bitterness would have destroyed him in solitary confinement, sustained by the shared solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the grinding inhumanity and corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Albert survived to give us Solitary, a chronicle of rare power and humanity that proves the better spirits of our nature can thrive against any odds."--Dust jacket
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
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Woodfox, Albert
Dewey number
  • 365/.6092
  • B
Index
index present
LC call number
HV6248.W765
LC item number
A3 2019
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
George, Leslie
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  • Louisiana State Penitentiary
  • Woodfox, Albert
  • Prisoners
  • African American prisoners
  • Ex-convicts
  • African American political activists
  • African American men
  • Solitary confinement
  • Crime and race
  • Judicial error
  • False imprisonment
  • Trials (False imprisonment)
  • Minorities
  • Legal ethics
  • Lawyers
  • Louisiana State Penitentiary
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
  • Trials (False imprisonment)
  • Solitary confinement
  • Prisoners
  • Minorities
  • Legal ethics
  • Lawyers
  • Judicial error
  • False imprisonment
  • Ex-convicts
  • Crime and race
  • African American prisoners
  • African American political activists
  • African American men
  • United States
  • Louisiana
Label
Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope, Albert Woodfox ; with Leslie George
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Tony's Green Room
  • Escape
  • 1970s.
  • Meeting the Black Panther Party
  • What is the Party?
  • NYC prison riot
  • Hostages
  • Angola, 1971
  • Herman Wallace
  • April 17, 1972 ; CCR
  • In the beginning
  • King arrives
  • CCR wars
  • My trial, 1973
  • Herrnan's trial, 1974
  • King is set up
  • Gary Tyler 1
  • Food slots
  • My greatest achievement
  • Strip search battle
  • 1980s.
  • 1960s.
  • "I got you"
  • Sick call
  • The shakedown and the sham of the reclass board
  • Comrades
  • Contact visit
  • Maturity
  • 1990s.
  • Justice delayed is justice denied
  • My greatest loss
  • Preparing for my trial
  • The High Steppers
  • Amite City
  • The crusaders
  • My trial, 1998
  • Back to Angola
  • 2000-2010.
  • We stand together
  • Hidden evidence
  • King leaves the belly of the beast
  • Torture at Camp J
  • Cruel and unusual
  • Car chase
  • "Are you still sane?"
  • 2008
  • Never apart
  • 2011-2016.
  • Torture
  • Forty years
  • Man of steel
  • The ends of justice
  • Theories
  • The struggles continues
  • Angola, 1960s
  • A plea for freedom, not justice
  • Prison days
  • Parole and back again
  • Stickup artist
Control code
1042117386
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
  • First Grove Atlantic Hardcover Edition.
  • First edition.
Extent
xi, 433 pages
Isbn
9780802148308
Lccn
2018045958
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1042117386
Label
Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope, Albert Woodfox ; with Leslie George
Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Tony's Green Room
  • Escape
  • 1970s.
  • Meeting the Black Panther Party
  • What is the Party?
  • NYC prison riot
  • Hostages
  • Angola, 1971
  • Herman Wallace
  • April 17, 1972 ; CCR
  • In the beginning
  • King arrives
  • CCR wars
  • My trial, 1973
  • Herrnan's trial, 1974
  • King is set up
  • Gary Tyler 1
  • Food slots
  • My greatest achievement
  • Strip search battle
  • 1980s.
  • 1960s.
  • "I got you"
  • Sick call
  • The shakedown and the sham of the reclass board
  • Comrades
  • Contact visit
  • Maturity
  • 1990s.
  • Justice delayed is justice denied
  • My greatest loss
  • Preparing for my trial
  • The High Steppers
  • Amite City
  • The crusaders
  • My trial, 1998
  • Back to Angola
  • 2000-2010.
  • We stand together
  • Hidden evidence
  • King leaves the belly of the beast
  • Torture at Camp J
  • Cruel and unusual
  • Car chase
  • "Are you still sane?"
  • 2008
  • Never apart
  • 2011-2016.
  • Torture
  • Forty years
  • Man of steel
  • The ends of justice
  • Theories
  • The struggles continues
  • Angola, 1960s
  • A plea for freedom, not justice
  • Prison days
  • Parole and back again
  • Stickup artist
Control code
1042117386
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
  • First Grove Atlantic Hardcover Edition.
  • First edition.
Extent
xi, 433 pages
Isbn
9780802148308
Lccn
2018045958
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1042117386

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