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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Woodfox was raised amid poverty and racism, and endured a deeply chaotic early youth.
Chapter 3: At Louisiana’s Angola prison, racism, corruption, rape, and violence ruled a hellish brutal world.
Chapter 4: After escaping custody, Woodfox landed in a New York prison, where the Black Panthers utterly transformed his life there.
Chapter 5: The Black Panthers were a powerful good, giving Woodfox identity, self-respect, and lasting hope.
Chapter 6: Woodfox established a new Black Panther branch inside Angola, and the authorities harshly punished him for it.
Chapter 7: Solitary confinement conditions were bleak, yet Woodfox steadily worked to improve them.
Chapter 8: Woodfox’s conviction for Brent Miller’s murder was a profoundly racist miscarriage of justice indeed.
Chapter 9: During Woodfox’s solitary confinement, conditions were cruel and inhumane.
Chapter 10: Throughout his long fight, the criminal justice system relentlessly opposed Woodfox.
Chapter 11: Woodfox gained his freedom, yet his struggle for racial justice continues onward.
Description
Solitary (2019) is the punishing tale of an African American man’s brutal treatment at the hands of the criminal justice system in Louisiana. In and out of prison as a young man, Albert Woodfox was framed for a murder he didn’t commit, apparently due to his membership in the Black Panther movement. He spent over 40 years in solitary confinement in a six by nine foot cell, treated inhumanely by a system that, by his account, is institutionally racist and cruel.
Who Should Listen
- People who care about justice
- Anyone searching for a better understanding of entrenched racial inequality