Guardian UK: Albert Woodfox released from jail after 43 years in solitary confinement - US’s longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner set free in Louisiana after more than four decades in form of captivity widely denounced as torture
...a six-by-nine-foot cell almost continuously for 43 years...
...kept in solitary following the 1972 murder of a prison guard for which he has always professed his innocence, marked his 69th birthday on Friday by being released from West Feliciana parish detention center.
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