Celda de aislamiento

The memories of the prisoner who has spent the longest time in solitary confinement in the United States. A must-read in the era of the Black Lives Matter movement. "Their main objective was to bend my spirit. They did not succeed. I have witnessed the horrors of man's cruelty to man. I did not lose my humanity. I bear the scars of beatings, loneliness, isolation and persecution. But I also bear the mark of every act of kindness. " These memoirs tell the unforgettable story of a man who spent more than four decades in an isolation cell - two by three meters, twenty-three hours a day, in the notorious Angola prison in Louisiana, for a crime he had not committed. Detained repeatedly in his youth in New Orleans, in his early years in prison he joined the Black Panther Party for his social commitment and code of conduct. He was serving a fifty-year sentence for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was assassinated. Albert and another member of the Black Panthers were immediately charged with the crime and transferred to solitary confinement by the prison director. Without actual evidence, they were sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Decades passed before Albert found a competent lawyer. Despite everything, he was not released until sixteen years later, in February 2016. Albert Woodfox is the longest-serving inmate in solitary confinement in the United States.