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A terminally ill former member of the Black Panther militant movement, who spent 40 years in solitary confinement for murder, has been set free after a judge reversed his controversial 1974 conviction for murder.

It is hard to know what Herman Wallace is feeling right now. He is out of prison after spending much of the past four decades alone in a 6-by-9-foot cell, a symbol to many around the world of a corrupt criminal justice system and one member of a trio that has become known as the Angola Three.

The murder conviction of a prisoner who has spent 41 years in solitary confinement has been overturned by a judge in the US state of Louisiana. What is it like being kept in total or near total isolation?