Surviving such hell was a mark of distinction in the neighborhood Woodfox then called home. His life becomes meaningful to himself — and profoundly so — only once he is able to locate it within a larger fight. “It was as if a light went on in a room inside me that I hadn’t known existed,” he writes. In addition, he forges life-defining friendships with two other falsely accused men also being held in solitary. Hunger strike by hunger strike, petition by petition, lawsuit by lawsuit, they attempt — and sometimes, though often at tremendous personal cost, are able — to force the prison to reform.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2019 16:30 UTC