Solitary
About this book
>the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement--in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana--for a crime he did not commit.
- dust jacket
Subjects
- african american men
- african american political activists
- african american prisoners
- african americans, biography
- biography
- biography & autobiography / cultural, ethnic & regional / african american & black
- crime and race
- ex-convicts
- false imprisonment
- judicial error
- lawyers
- legal ethics
- legal status, laws
- louisiana state penitentiary
- malpractice
- minorities
- mistaken identity
- moral and ethical aspects
- new york times reviewed
- personal narratives
- political activists
- prisoners
- prisoners, biography
- prisons, united states
- social science / discrimination & race relations
- social science / penology
- solitary confinement
- trials (false imprisonment)