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Update, July 15: Over the weekend, Louisiana’s Hunt prison reduced Herman Wallace’s classification from maximum to medium, according to a source in his defense team. That means the terminally ill Wallace will stay in the prison hospital in a 10-bunk dorm, with access to a day room, and won’t have to wear leg irons. His phone privileges are […]

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Members of Congress Call for Investigation of Louisiana’s Use of Solitary Confinement, Treatment of Angola 3

Fourteen Days in Solitary [7/7/13]

Angola 3’s Herman Wallace, Gravely Ill, Still Held in Isolation

To See or Not to See: Capturing Herman Wallace’s 41 Years in Solitary

Voices from Solitary: The Louder My Voice the Deeper They Bury Me

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 “Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement”

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

Torturous Milestone: 40 Years in Solitary for the Angola 3

New Film Explores “the Injustice of Solitary Confinement and the Transformative Power of Art”

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

40 Years in Solitary: New BBC Program on the Angola 3 Case

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Supreme Court Rules Against Exonerated Death Row Inmate, for Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence

Voices from Solitary: Lane Nelson on Angola’s Death Row

Voices from Solitary: “Worse Than Angola”

Wilbert Rideau on Solitary Confinement: “The Zenith in Human Cruelty”

Angola Prison May Close Lockdown Unit–But Vows to Keep Inmates in Isolation

John Thompson Takes a Louisiana Injustice from Death Row to the Supreme Court

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others

LGBT Kids in Prison Face Rape, Beatings, and Isolation

Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Our Father Who Art in Prison

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau