Albert Woodfox released from jail after 43 years in solitary confinement

Initially ,He protested peacefully with hunger strike against [[Prison Policy]] which include :

discrimination,segregation and RAPE.

As for aggravated armed robbery it was a survival mode that time , not that he was a granted a fair trail to begin with :

Since the gains of the 1950s–1970s, African American communities have been suffering from extremely high incarceration rates of their young males, due to a variety of factors, including the drug war, imposition of sentencing guidelines, cutbacks in government assistance, restructuring of industry and loss of working-class jobs leading to high poverty rates, and government neglect, a breakdown in traditional family units, and unfavorable social policies. African Americans have the highest imprisonment rate of any major ethnic group in the world.[citation needed]

The southern states of the former Confederacy, which historically had maintained slavery longer than in the remainder of the country and imposed post-Reconstruction oppression, have the highest rates of incarceration and application of the death penalty.[14][15]wiki.


You can argue that he may deserve to be imprisoned but not in solitary confinement

BTW the odd of 2 inmates suffering from liver damage due to complication of H-C is a prove of systematic denying of medical help.