Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
The man who endured the longest period of solitary confinement in American prison history died on August 5th, aged 75
“I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infin-ity. I was made to give.”
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “What freedom means”
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