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United States: Last Angola Three inmate speaks of mental torture

ALBERT WOODFOX, the last of the “Angola Three” prisoners to be released, has spoke of his 43 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana.

Mr Woodfox was finally freed on Friday, his 69th birthday, after pleading no contest to manslaughter charges in the 1972 killling of prison guard Brent Miller, to which he has always maintained his innocence.

On Saturday, he told reporters of the mental torture he suffered during more than four decades in a tiny, solitary cell.

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