Angola 3 lawyer demands their freedom

Nick Trenticosta, lawyer for Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, two of the “Angola Three,” issued the following March 27 statement in response to Louisiana State Penitentiary’s decision to move his clients from solitary confinement to a separate dormitory:

Herman and Albert need to be released from prison because they are innocent: they were framed for a murder they did not commit.

After thirty-six years of solitary confinement, recent media scrutiny, a press conference by Louisiana House Judiciary Committee Chairman Cedric Richmond, and a visit by

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers have caused the Angola prison authorities to panic and move the two men into new quarters without informing them or their lawyers about the terms of their new situation at the prison.

We will redouble our efforts to gain justice and therefore freedom for Wallace and Woodfox. Changing their cells is not enough.