US’s longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner set free in Louisiana after more than four decades in form of captivity widely denounced as tortureAlbert Woodfox,the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the US, held in isolation in a six-by-nine-foot cell nearly continuously for 43 years, and has been released from a Louisiana jail.
Woodfox,who was kept in solitary following the 1972 murder of a prison guard for which he has always professed his innocence, marked his 69th birthday on Friday by being released from West Feliciana parish detention center. It was a bittersweet birthday present: the prisoner finally escaped a form of captivity that has widely been denounced as torture, or that has deprived him of all meaningful human contact for more than four decades.
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Source: theguardian.com