The stage play Angola 3 will premiere on Friday, October 20, at the Carver Theater. This play was written by Parnell Herbert and will be directed by filmmaker Saran Bynum. The doors will open each ...

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of Albert Woodfox, the last imprisoned member of the Angola 3, from a Louisiana prison. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that a ...

Albert Woodfox, whose lengthy incarceration at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, most of it in solitary confinement, became a rallying cry for prison reformers across the world, died ...

Imagine being confined in a 6x9 prison cell every day for decades, closed off from the world for a crime you didn’t commit. That is the lived experiences of men known as the Angola 3. Robert H. King, ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Robert King plans to be there if and when his friend Albert Woodfox is released from behind bars after more than four decades in solitary confinement. King and Woodfox are the ...

Now through January, the Historic New Orleans Collection is hosting an exhibit called "Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration," which explores Louisiana's present-day ...

Prosecutors implored a federal appeals court Wednesday to reverse an unusual lower court ruling forbidding the state from retrying Albert Woodfox, one of the so-called Angola 3 prisoners, for a third ...

A wrongful murder conviction forced Woodfox to spend 43 years and 10 months in solitary confinement at Louisiana's Angola Prison. He has died at... Albert Woodfox, who spent nearly 44 years in ...