Friday, February 19, 2016

USA: Albert Woodfox is free after 43 years in solitary confinement. #Angola3 - VICTORY!

Send a message to Albert Woodfox, free after 43 years in solitary confinement

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GREAT NEWS!!!  A MOMENT FOR US ALL TO CELEBRATE.  GREAT WORK AND CONGRATULATIONS TO US ALL BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY

ALBERT WOODFOX!!!!
Ernest Coverson

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"Today, Louisiana prisoner Albert Woodfox walked free in Louisiana on his 69th birthday, 44 years after he was first put into solitary confinement. He was the United States’ longest serving prisoner held in isolation.

Nearly every day for more than half of his life, Albert woke up in a cell the size of a parking space, surrounded by concrete and steel. Tomorrow morning, for the first time in more than four decades, he will be able to walk outside and look up at the sky.

Over the course of nearly five years working on Albert’s case at Amnesty, I heard many, many times about how insurmountable the odds were. How working to free a Black Panther convicted of killing a correctional officer in a case so thoroughly tainted by racism, prosecutorial misconduct and injustice was tilting at windmills - and in the state with the nation’s highest rates of incarceration state, no less.

But I always know that Albert would come home.  

I have seen the incredible power of our movement when we work together, and the courage, humility, and conviction of so many of you who have played big and small roles to help this historic human rights victory come to fruition. And I have seen the incredible conviction of the Angola 3: Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert himself - all three of whom endured unthinkable nightmares, but persevered with their humor, convictions and dignity intact to wage  a relentless fight against the cruel, inhuman and degrading practice of solitary confinement in the United States.

In the final statement that Herman Wallace issued to his supporters before he was released, and succumbed to liver cancer he wrote: “The State may have stolen my life, but my spirit will continue to struggle along with Albert and the many comrades that have joined us along the way here in the belly of the beast….although I’m down on my back, I remain at your service.” I’m carrying those words with me today and remembering Herman as we celebrate this victory.

Thank you, for everything you have done and continue to do. I am so proud to be part of this work with you.

Yours,
J 
 Jasmine Heiss
Senior Campaigner, Individuals at Risk Campaign
Amnesty International USA


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