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An 11 year old from London has become the youngest ever British person to visit two prisoners in Louisiana State Prison, who are the longest serving inmates in solitary confinement. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have spent over 35 years held in 6ft x 9ft cells for crimes even a federal judge has overturned.

Due to endless litigation, conflicting legal technicalities, or inadequate transitional facilities, prisoners who are innocent may find themselves behind bars indefinitely.

An ongoing legal battle in Louisiana could result in the overturning of a murder conviction that sent a prisoner there to solitary confinement for 36 years. A judge recently recommended that the murder conviction of former Black Panther Albert Woodfox, now 61, be overturned. The State of Louisiana disagrees.

‘Legality and morality are not friends; they don’t mix in the courtroom,’ says Robert King, a softly spoken man with a terrible tale. The 66-year-old with a careworn face and Louisiana drawl spent 29 years in solitary confinement in a US jail, locked in a 6ft by 9ft cell for 23 hours a day, for a crime he did not commit.