Exclusive: in his first interview as a free man,the final of the Angola Three tells Ed Pilkington how he followed the news, including the ‘racism’ of Donald Trump, and to maintain himself sane• Woodfox released from jail after 43 years in isolationIn 1951,scientists at McGill University conducted an experiment in which they subjected male graduates to solitary confinement in a simulated prison cell, to see how they would cope with prolonged isolation. The study was intended to run for six weeks but was abruptly terminated after only seven days because several students began hallucinating and suffering from severe mental breakdowns.
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