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These searches are not only degrading, they’re illegal – and in a strange twist of irony, it was Mr. Woodfox’s previous lawsuit against the state that set this precedent.

Herman Wallace was a Black Panther, a political prisoner, and he was my friend.

The widow of a Louisiana prison guard joined more than 25,000 other people Monday in asking Gov. Bobby Jindal to release her husband’s convicted killer from solitary confinement.

The Angola 3 refers to three men convicted of murdering a prison guard at the Louisiana State Penitentiary more than 40 years ago, in 1972. Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox were accused of the crime, and then held mostly in solitary confinement for decades.