#woodfox

[merenq]

oh look. a bi disaster

[theoutcastrogue]

The John Oliver segment on solitary confinement. Which is torture. See also this video from the Real News Network, where "Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years in prison, talks about what John Oliver’s recent Last Week Tonight segment on solitary confinement gets right and what it leaves out, including the fact that solitary was used to isolate Black Panthers and other radicals entering the prison system in the ’70s."

"When I got locked up and I went into Maryland Penitentiary in ’73, they had what they called the hole, and the hole would have been consistent with the concept of solitary or isolation, because they basically had made about four or five cells and they would isolate people in them that they deemed to be unruly. But overall, you had punitive segregation, which was you stayed locked in your cell, but you was in an environment where you had access to people, you could talk to the person in the cell next to you.

But when solitary confinement reemerged, when they started locking up radical elements, the Black Panthers, the Weathermen, Puerto Rican nationalists, anybody who was fighting, anybody who was antiestablishment, anybody who would stand up for human rights and self-determination, that’s when it became a tool, a mechanism to suppress that. This massive prison population exists and in its existence it creates a threat. The threat being the potential for organization, and organizing to combat and fight fascism, racism."

— Mansa Musa

"John Oliver and his team of writers talk about the reemergence of solitary in the 1980s, coinciding with the explosion of the prison population. So we’re entering the age of mass incarceration, more people are coming into the prisons, and the way that they explain it is that there’s overcrowding, there’s fighting, and then solitary emerges as this punitive weapon to try to get this prison population under control.

But what you’ve added to the conversation is that, you, like our dearly departed brother Eddie Conway, like so many other radicals that we’ve talked to on this show, knew they were targeted for solitary confinement because they are these radical elements coming in, they’re going to organize, they’re going to talk to other inmates, they’re going to build and develop that revolutionary consciousness.

So for a prison warden, they’re like, “Well, we don’t want that, so let’s just isolate these guys.” That was a really crucial additional context to the John Oliver segment. I just wanted to clarify for folks watching and listening, like you said, before solitary really became the weapon of choice in the prison system, there were other proto mechanisms for isolating, proto solitary confinement mechanisms."

"Albert Woodfox, another lifelong activist and Black Panther, was incarcerated after being wrongfully imprisoned for over 40 years, spent over 44 years in solitary confinement in Angola, was released I believe in 2016, and died only a few years after that. Just the thought of 44 years in solitary confinement breaks my brain a bit."

— Maximillian Alvarez

[donnacorless]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: SOLITARY Hardback Book By Albert Woodfox EUC.

[chetyarbrough]

RAISED FIST

American Democracy will either fail or evolve by choosing to ignore or address the stated purposes of the Constitution.

Books of Interest Website: chetyarbrough.blog “Solitary: Unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope” By: Albert Woodfox Narrated By: JD Jackson Albert Woodfox, (1947-2022) Author who spent 43 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s Angola prison. Woodfox dies at the age of 75 after being released in 2016. “Solitary” is about American injustice…

[odyseus]

📙!!!!!!!

omfg i guess that serves me right haha

📕 What book has had the biggest impact on your life, and why?

this is such a hard question because so many of the books i've read stick with me in different ways. in my childhood probably Puzzle Ocean (lmao) just because that's the first book i remember loving. in adulthood either American Gods (the first time I really remember seeing myself reflected in a character and my favorite book of all time) or Solitary by Albert Woodfox (because you can't read Solitary and come away unchanged).

thank youuuu <3

bookish asks

[itstypical]

What’s your favorite book you’ve read?

Solitary by Albert Woodfox. One day my professor told our class about this book and I couldnt believe someone could be in solitary for 4 decades so I read it and I believe it

[unamass]

Renard / Noisetier

Sculpture: Pascal Maire

[porterdavis]

Holy fuck! 43 years in solitary confinement? That's state-sanctioned torture. Current UN guidelines don't allow more than 15 days!

[garadinervi]

Albert 'Shaka Cinque' Woodfox (1947-2022)

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(image: Albert Woodfox, Photograph by © Mark Hartman for «The New Yorker». Plus Albert Woodfox: A ‘Country Boy’ Turned Black Panther Reflects on Life After 45 Years of Solitary Confinement, by Alicia Maule, Innocence Project, February 19, 2021)

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Who has not heard of the Angola Three, three young Black prisoners who were falsely accused of killing a prison guard in 1972, in the infamous Louisiana maximum-security prison sited at a former slave plantation, and named for the place where the African captives came from: Angola. On August 4, attorneys for Albert Woodfox announced his passing at the age of 75.

[pncrealty]

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[universitybookstore]

Powerful story of justice denied and personal triumph, from Grove Press, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. (Listen on NPR here.)

[mrdirtybear]

Albert Woodfox was one of ‘The Angola Three’, all imprisoned for decades, Woodfox served the longest, kept for 44 years kept in solitary confinement, here he speaks in his own words about how he fell into .

[bigtickhk]

Solitary by Albert Woodfox https://amzn.to/2CalLqE