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Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement: my story of transformation and hope

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    The Text Publishing Company, 2019

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    2019
    Summary:

    Nearly forty years in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell for 23 hours a day for a crime he did not commit, Albert Woodfox survived and emerged with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact.

    Contents:
    • Introduction
    • In the beginning
    • 1960s
    • The high steppers
    • Car chase
    • Angola, 1960s
    • Prison days
    • Parole and back again
    • Stickup artist
    • 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
    • King arrives
    • CCR wars
    • My trial, 1973
    • Herman's trial, 1974
    • King is set up
    • Gary Tyler
    • Food slots
    • My greatest achievement
    • Strip search battle
    • 1980s
    • "I got you"
    • Sick call
    • The shakedown and the sham of the Reclas Board
    • Comrades
    • Contact visit
    • Maturity
    • 1990s
    • Justice delayed is justice denied
    • My greatest loss
    • Preparing for my trial
    • Amite City
    • The crusades
    • The 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 unsual
    • "Are you still sane?"
    • 2008
    • Never apart
    • 2011-2016
    • Torture
    • Forty years
    • Man of steel
    • The ends of justice
    • Theories
    • The struggle continues
    • A plea for freedom, not justice
    • Epilogue.
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies, True crime stories
    Sujets: African American political activists | African American prisoners | Discrimination in criminal justice administration | Ex-convicts | Louisiana | Prisoners | Solitary confinement
    Original Publisher: Melbourne, VIC, Text Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781925774443, 1925774449