{"id":28230,"date":"2019-06-05T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/solitary-film-tell-story-angola-3s-albert-woodfox\/"},"modified":"2019-06-05T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:52:05","slug":"solitary-film-tell-story-angola-3s-albert-woodfox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/solitary-film-tell-story-angola-3s-albert-woodfox\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Solitary’ Film to Tell Story of Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Solitary’ Film to Tell Story of Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox<\/h3>\n

\n By N. Jamiyla Chisholm<\/span> Jun 05, 2019<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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“Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement, My Story of Transformation and Hope<\/a>,” the Albert Woodfox<\/a> memoir that recounts the 43 years he spent in the Louisiana State Penitentiary<\/a> (more commonly known as Angola Prison) in solitary confinement, has been bought by Fox Searchlight<\/a>, Deadline<\/a> reported yesterday (June 4).<\/p>\n

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Actor Mahershala Ali<\/a> (“Moonlight<\/a>”), who is reportedly pushing to star in the film, has signed on as an executive producer. The two-time Academy Award-winner<\/a> is no stranger to playing complex characters or dramatic roles, and he’s currently in the running for an Emmy nomination this year for his work in the HBO series “True Detective<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Woodfox, who was released from prison<\/a> in February 2016 on his 69th birthday, lived in a six- by nine-foot cell for 23 hours a day as punishment for a crime he has always maintained that he didn’t commit. Colorlines previously reported:<\/p>\n

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In 1972, while serving a five-year bid in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for armed robbery, Albert Woodfox was convicted<\/a> for allegedly working with fellow inmate Herman Wallace<\/a> to stab and kill a guard. The two men maintained that they did not commit the crime, but were targeted and isolated because they founded a chapter of the Black Panther Party<\/a> to address conditions inside the prison. Woodfox, Wallace and Robert King<\/a> (who was accused of murdering another [incarcerated person]), were placed in perpetual solitary confinement<\/a>, earning them the name the Angola 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Woodfox’s memoir is described as a “call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the U.S. and around the world,” on his publisher’s website<\/a>. Woodfox, King and Wallace became activists as they “endured a combined total of 114 years in solitary confinement,” according to the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3<\/a>. Woodfox, the last of the three to be released, is said to have survived the longest time in solitary confinement in the United States, per Free the Angola 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Mahershala Ali will executive produce, and perhaps star, in biopic of the Black man who spent 43 years in solitary confinement for a crime he says he didn’t commit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[881,1244,16402,16412,2237,16423,3856,16407,5700,8989,9264,9953,13468],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=28230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}