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MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: 'Buddy' Caldwell, lay off the Angola 3 already

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On February 26, Albert Woodfox, one of the two remaining imprisoned members of the Angola 3 received some potentially good news. For the third time, his conviction for the 1972 murder of an officer at Louisiana State Penitentiary was overturned and a federal judge ordered Woodfox's release after more than 40 years in solitary confinement.
Instead of letting the matter be settled in court, the Louisiana attorney general couldn't help himself from responding. In doing so, he showed why this case is about more than the murder of one man. It's about the inhumanity exhibited for more than 40 years. That is why this week's letter is written to him.
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Over 40 years ago in Louisiana, 3 young black men were silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation called Angola. In 1972 and (more...)
 
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