{"id":8873,"date":"2012-04-18T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2012-04-18T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:56:07","slug":"solitary-confinement-for-14600-days-no-human-being-deserves-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8873","title":{"rendered":"Solitary Confinement for 14,600 Days. No human being deserves this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>14,600 Days in Solitary Confinement<\/strong><br \/>\nBryna Subherwal &#8211; 16 April, 2012  &#8211; Amnesty International USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>No human being deserves this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>23 hours a day isolated in a small cell, four steps long, three steps across. Three times a week for exercise in an outdoor cage, weather permitting. A few hours every week to shower or simply walk. Rare, fleeting human contact with prison guards, let alone with family.<\/p>\n<p>This describes four decades of existence for Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace in Louisiana, two members of the so-called \u201cAngola 3\u2033 who pass their remaining hours \u201cin the hole\u201d to this day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W71sSEDDpKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>April 17th will mark 40 years \u2014 14,600 days \u2014 of their nightmare. The conditions in which these two men are held, as well as the tragically absurd duration of this punishment, violate a host of human rights treaties to which the US is a party, including those covering basic standards for treatment of prisoners. Prisons simply shouldn\u2019t operate this way in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Woodfox and Wallace may be in isolation, but they are not forgotten. Our calls for justice will ring loud \u2014 on April 17 we\u2019ll make sure Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal hears us when we arrive at his Baton Rouge doorstep with tens of thousands of petition signatures from people in 125 countries in hand.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t let more days pass without justice. Herman Wallace is now 70 years old, Albert Woodfox is in his mid-60s, and both men are suffering from serious health problems \u2014 made worse by the appalling deprivation in which they live.<\/p>\n<p>Ill, advancing in age, with clean disciplinary records for the last 20 years \u2014 what is so dangerous about these men that could possibly warrant this inhumane treatment, for so long?<\/p>\n<p>Because the prison authorities see them as a threat. The \u201cAngola 3\u2033 organized their fellow prisoners against inhumane treatment and racial segregation in the early 1970s. Angola Prison\u2019s warden, Burl Cain, has suggested that Woodfox and Wallace\u2019s continued isolation is based on their political activism \u2014 particularly their association with the Black Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAngola 3\u2033 case highlights the failings of a Louisiana justice system that is undermined by discrimination. No physical evidence links Woodfox and Wallace to the 1972 murder of a prison guard. Inmate testimony is questionable. And judges who twice overturned Woodfox\u2019s conviction for the murder cited racial discrimination, prosecutorial misconduct, and more.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amnestyusa.org\/iar\/14600-days-in-solitary-confinement\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D8873&amp;text=Solitary+Confinement+for+14%2C600+Days.+No+human+being+deserves+this&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14,600 Days in Solitary Confinement Bryna Subherwal &#8211; 16 April, 2012 &#8211; Amnesty International USA No human being deserves this. 23 hours a day isolated in a small cell, four steps long, three steps across. Three times a week for exercise in an outdoor cage, weather permitting. 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