Albert Woodfox spends 23 hours a day in a tiny cell, denied any meaningful social interaction, in conditions the UN Special Rapporteur recently condemned as torture.
Nothing
can justify the cruelty the State is inflicting on Albert, as it once
inflicted on Herman. Prison records indicate he is not a threat to
himself or others, yet the original decision to keep him in solitary
confinement has been rubberstamped 160 times with no meaningful review.
And so this has been his life for the best part of four decades, since
he was accused of the 1972 murder of prison guard Brent Miller.
Earlier this year, Albert's conviction was overturned for the third time. Once again in its campaign of vengeance against Albert, the State of Louisiana is appealing the ruling.
Call on the Louisiana authorities to drop their appeal, and free Albert
We
have passed on the hundreds of messages of solidarity you left in
response to Herman’s freedom, and tragic death, to his family and
members of the 'Angola' 3 campaign, including Robert King – the first of
the three to be freed.
I wanted to share one of those inspirational messages with you:
'With the darkness that inevitably lingers with the death of Herman Wallace, there shines an implacable light. The light that in his final days, he was able to taste freedom one more time… While this is not complete justice... you can take away the warming feeling that there are people who will relentlessly support the cause of justice.’
Please
now join our campaign for the release of Albert Woodfox, so that he is
able to walk out from his cramped cell to freedom.
Call on the Louisiana authorities to free Albert Woodfox
Thank you,
Kim Manning-Cooper Campaign Manager
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