Dec 17th, 2008 · After growing doubts about a 1973 murder case, a judge overturned an Angola inmate's conviction and granted him bail three weeks ago. Hours later, the Louisiana attorney general stepped in and halted the release. Now the inmate is back in the isolation cell, where he's spent more than three decades.
Dec 15th, 2008 · After appearing in supporting roles in more than 50 films, actor Richard Jenkins takes the lead in The Visitor, Tom McCarthy's film about a solitary economics professor whose world opens up when he discovers an apartment he rented in New York is already occupied.
Oct 28th, 2008 · Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox spent 36 years in solitary confinement in a Louisiana prison for the murder of a corrections officer. Decades later, questions are surfacing about how the wife of the lead investigator ended up as the forewoman on the jury and why the key witness was promised a pardon.
Oct 27th, 2008 · In 1972, a popular young correctional officer was stabbed to death at Angola prison. Two inmates were quickly convicted of the crime and placed in solitary confinement for nearly four decades. Now, all these years later, the murder seems even more elusive than it did then, and there are questions about their guilt.
Jul 16th, 2008 · A federal appeals court says the only man who is being held as an enemy combatant on U.S. soil should have the right to challenge his detention. Ali al-Marri has been in military custody for five years, accused of having ties to al-Qaida. He has been held in solitary confinement with no criminal charges against him.
Jul 5th, 2008 · During a brief, but incredibly productive year at the end of the 18th century, British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge joined forces to launch a literary revolution: the English Romantic movement. The story of their partnership "cuts so directly against the myth of the solitary artistic genius," reports Wisconsin Public Radio's Steve Paulson, who goes to the Quantock Hills of Somerset, to follow in the steps of those poets. Wordsworth and Coleridge fed off each other's enthusiasm and intoxicating ideas, according to Paulson. Coleridge was only 24 — and known mainly for his fiery political speeches; Wordsworth was 26 — and completely unknown as a poet. Somehow, they convinced each other they could launch a revolution.
Mar 27th, 2008 · 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.
Mar 10th, 2008 · A new study finds that moths can remember things they learned when they were caterpillars -- even though the process of metamorphosis essentially turns their brains and bodies to soup. The finding shows solitary insects may be more intelligent than scientists believed.