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
Genres
- Prisons, united states
- Ex-convicts
- Prisoners, biography
- African americans, biography
- Political activists
- New York Times reviewed
- Prisoners
- Biography
- African American political activists
- Solitary confinement
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
- Louisiana State Penitentiary
- African American prisoners
- African American men
- Crime and race
- Judicial error
- False imprisonment
- Personal narratives
- Trials (False imprisonment)
- Minorities
- Legal status, laws
- Legal ethics
- Lawyers
- Malpractice
- Mistaken identity
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