ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA (WAFB) - One of the men suspected of killing an Angola prison guard decades ago pleaded no contest to lesser charges Friday morning and was ordered to be released from prison.

Albert Woodfox, the last locked-up member of the Angola 3, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in the 1972 killing of a prison guard and walked out of jail Friday, his birthday, ending a long ...

Albert Woodfox, the last remaining member of the Angola 3, was released from state custody on Friday (Feb. 19) after more than four decades in solitary confinement in Louisiana prisons. He was freed ...

Listen • 6:51 20160319_atc_after_decades_in_solitary_last_of_the_angola_3_carry_on_their_struggle.mp3 Albert Woodfox has spent more time in solitary confinement ...

(CBS/AP) NEW ORLEANS - A 71-year-old man who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement in Louisiana died Friday, less than a week after a judge freed him and granted him a new trial. Herman ...

Imagine being confined in a 6x9 prison cell every day for decades, closed off from the world for a crime you didn’t commit. That is the lived experiences of men known as the Angola 3. Robert H. King, ...

Robert King says he watched nearly three decades of his life fade away in solitary confinement inside Louisiana’s Angola prison, sometimes glimpsing the world through a small window and longing for ...