Summary

Woodfox’s health degrades; in addition to diabetes, claustrophobia and numerous conditions, he now has swelling in his ankles too large for ankle shackles. In 2011, the United Nations releases a statement against solitary confinement. Chapter 49 begins in 2012, marking 40 years in solitary confinement. An expose is written on Louisiana being the prison capital of the world with an incarceration rate 13 times that of China’s. Woodfox’s evidentiary hearing has one claim left—that the 1993 grand jury was tainted by discrimination against blacks.

Chapter 50 opens to 2013, and Wallace has liver cancer; he is given two months to live. Due to their joint civil case against solitary confinement, King, Wallace and Woodfox are able to meet together, and, at one scheduled meeting, they learn a judge has overturned Wallace’s conviction based on discriminatory jury selection. His lawyers, being physically present, secure his immediate...