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The conviction of a former Black Panther in the killing of a prison guard in 1972 should be overturned because his former lawyer should have objected to testimony from witnesses who had died after his original trial, a federal magistrate found.

With former prisoners and their families at the helm, the movement to abolish supermax prisons and end solitary confinement is gaining ground.

Louisiana’s Angola prison is often referred to as “The Farm.” On one edge of its vast acres of corn and cotton are the prison’s isolation cells, where two inmates, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, spent the past 36 years in solitary confinement. On the other side, high on a hill is a far more comfortable place: the dog pen.

Brent Miller was born and raised in Louisiana’s Angola Prison, in a special neighborhood built just for correctional officers. It was there that he fell in love with a girl who lived just up the street. One morning, three months after they were married, the young bride’s sister came running to find her.