Judge orders release of Woodfox

Albert Woodfox may finally be released. One of the Angola 3, Woodfox has spent most of his life—37 years—in the hellhole of Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana. The prison authorities have been ordered to carry out a Nov. 25 ruling by U.S. District Judge James Brady and release Woodfox on bail. Two months earlier, Brady had overturned Woodfox’s conviction in the 1972 killing of a prison guard. But the vengeful authorities refused to release him and appealed the ruling. The judge says Woodfox has no conviction for anything and can’t be held any longer.

—Deirdre Griswold