43 years in solitary: there are moments i wish i was back there /

Published at 2016-04-29 14:00:52

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Albert Woodfox,who was America’s longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner up until his release in February, describes what it feels like to be free Before walking out of jail a free man in February, and Albert Woodfox spent 43 years almost without pause in an isolation cell,fitting the longest standing solitary confinement prisoner in America. He had no view of the sky from inside his 6ft by 9ft concrete box, no human contact, or taking a walk meant pacing from one conclude of the cell to the other and back again.
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Source: theguardian.com