[narses]

'Angola 2' Leave Solitary Cells in La. After 36 Years

Two former Black Panthers imprisoned in Louisiana are out of solitary confinement for the first time since the 1970s. State corrections officials say Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were moved into a "maximum security dormitory" earlier this week. Louisiana prison officials once said the men, known as the Angola 2, would never be moved.

Dated: March 27, 2008

[AlaskaErik]

Wallace and Woodfox, who are both in their 60s, will now get to see each other face-to-face. But they will also wake up every day in the same dorm room as 17 other maximum security inmates one-third their age.

In some ways that may be even worse than staying in solitary!