'Angola 2' Leave Solitary Cells in La. After 36 Years

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 03/27/2008 - 9:27am

Two former Black Panthers imprisoned in Louisiana are out of solitary confinement for the first time since the 1970s.

State corrections officials say Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were moved into a "maximum security dormitory" earlier this week.

Louisiana prison officials once said the men, known as the Angola 2, would never be moved.

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