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Former political prisoner speaks
Published Jun 3, 2005 10:49 PM
Robert Wilkerson, right, a member of the Angola 3 who spent 29 years in
solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary, was a featured speaker
at a May 25 forum entitled “Racism & the Criminal Justice
System” at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y. Wilkerson, along with
Angola 3 members Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, organized a prison chapter
of the Black Panther Party. All three were serving long prison terms when they
were falsely accused of murdering a white prison guard. Wallace and Woodfox
remain in prison. Wilkerson was released in February 2001. The forum was spon
sor ed by the People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond and the New
York Anti-Racist Alliance.
—Photo and story by Anne
Pruden
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