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<font size=3><b>'Angola 3' member reportedly in solitary holding
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</a></font><font size=2><i>Associated Press - June 13, 2008 9:24 AM ET
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</i>NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An inmate who only recently was moved into a
dormitory after 36 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State
Penitentiary reportedly is now in a cell that inmates call "the
dungeon."<br><br>
That word comes from Emma Mackinnon, a spokeswoman for attorneys
representing Herman Wallace and two other former Black Panthers known as
the Angola Three because they were kept in isolation for decades in the
state prison at Angola.<br><br>
Officials at the prison and other state corrections officials could not
immediately be reached for comment.<br><br>
Mackinnon says the other member of the Angola Three who is still in
prison - Albert Woodfox - called attorneys last night and said guards had
come for Wallace, and said they were moving him to a holding cell known
as the dungeon.<br><br>
A federal magistrate has recommended overturning Woodfox's conviction.
Wallace has an appeal on similar grounds in state court.<br><br>
</font><h1><b>'Angola 3' member moved to one-man holding
cell</b></h1><font size=3>6/13/2008, 11:29 a.m. CDT <br>
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</a>NEW ORLEANS (AP) An inmate who only recently was moved into a
dormitory after 36 years in solitary confinement was in a one-man holding
cell Friday, accused of breaking a prison rule.<br><br>
Warden Cathy Fontenot, a prison spokeswoman, said she could not say what
Herman Wallace allegedly did because rule violations are not public
information.<br><br>
"It's a minor violation of a phone issue," defense attorney
Nicholas Trenticosta said the sort of infraction likely to bring a
temporary loss of privileges if it is found valid.<br><br>
Wallace will get an administrative hearing within 72 hours, Fontenot
said. <br><br>
Wallace is one of three former Black Panthers known as the Angola Three
because they were kept in isolation for decades in the Louisiana State
Penitentiary at Angola, 40 miles northwest of Baton Rouge.<br><br>
One was freed in 2001 after 29 years in solitary confinement, but Wallace
and Albert Woodfox were in isolation cells from 1972 until this past
March, when they were moved to a maximum-security dormitory with nine
other inmates.<br><br>
Wallace was moved days after a federal magistrate recommended overturning
Woodfox's conviction for killing a prison guard. Wallace, who also was
convicted in the stabbing death of guard Brent Miller on April 17, 1972,
has an appeal on similar grounds in state court.<br><br>
Trenticosta said he and other attorneys met with Wallace and Woodfox on
Thursday to talk about the non-binding recommendation to U.S. District
Judge John Brady.<br><br>
He said the move to a holding cell is standard when an inmate is accused
of breaking a rule, and the timing for Wallace appears to be just
coincidence.<br><br>
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