In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne got two months in solitary confinement for defying the warden. For three inmates in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as “Angola”), two months in solitary is nothing.
At Angola, Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, and Robert Hillary King were on 23-hour-a-day lockdown with one hour a day outside their 6-by-9-foot cells for shower and exercise for about 30 years.
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