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Date sent: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:08:24 +0200
Subject: Fwd: WW: Angola prisoner faces new repression.
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From: "Dapamda" <[log in to unmask]>
30 YEARS IN SOLITARY: ANGOLA PRISONER FACES NEW REPRESSION
By Leslie George - Angola 3 Committee
Herman Wallace of the Angola 3 has been sentenced to Camp J., the
Louisiana State Penitentiary's solidarity confinement/punishment camp,
following a disciplinary hearing on March 13.
The Angola 3 are Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King Wilkerson.
The three fought for prison reform in the early 1970s. As a result,
prison officials framed them for crimes they did not commit. Wilkerson
was released on Feb. 8, 2001.
Wallace and Woodfox, who created a chapter of the Black Panther Party
behind bars in the early 1970s, remain locked down 23 hours a day. On
April 18, 2002, they will have been in solitary for 30 years.
Now prison officials claim they found a small piece of metal in
Wallace's cell during a shakedown on March 11--the third shakedown of
Wallace's cell that week. Officials allege they found contraband after
searching his cell while he was out in a "yard" for exercise. They
claim the piece of metal, which Wallace adamantly denies having, could
be used to open handcuffs.
Wallace believes he was set up in part because of a pending American
Civil Liberties Union suit against state officials for his long-term
solitary confinement.
At a disciplinary hearing, Wallace challenged the authorities to give
him and the officer who searched his cell a lie detector test, but his
request was denied and he was found guilty.
At Camp J., Wallace will lose even the few privileges he is afforded
in his current solitary confinement status. He has already been
stripped of all his property except for writing materials, a
dictionary and his copy of "Lockdown America" by Christian Parenti. He
will be forced to wear leg irons during his three hours per week of
solitary exercise in a fenced-in cage. Phone calls are limited to one
per month.
For more information, visit - www.Angola3.org.
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