
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


There are some human experiences which most of us find it very hard to get our heads around. Stephen Sackur speaks to Albert Woodfox, who experienced the unimaginable torment of more than four decades in solitary confinement, in a tiny cell in one of America’s most notorious prisons. He was the victim of ingrained racism and brutality inside America’s system of criminal justice. He is now a free man, but what does freedom really mean, after everything he’s been through?
(Photo: Albert Woodfox, a former member of the Black Panthers, who was put in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Credit: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images)
By BBC World Service4.4
327327 ratings
There are some human experiences which most of us find it very hard to get our heads around. Stephen Sackur speaks to Albert Woodfox, who experienced the unimaginable torment of more than four decades in solitary confinement, in a tiny cell in one of America’s most notorious prisons. He was the victim of ingrained racism and brutality inside America’s system of criminal justice. He is now a free man, but what does freedom really mean, after everything he’s been through?
(Photo: Albert Woodfox, a former member of the Black Panthers, who was put in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Credit: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images)

7,589 Listeners

4,162 Listeners

376 Listeners

525 Listeners

1,051 Listeners

294 Listeners

5,470 Listeners

1,801 Listeners

1,766 Listeners

1,043 Listeners

2,090 Listeners

973 Listeners

197 Listeners

745 Listeners

50 Listeners

3,184 Listeners

723 Listeners

142 Listeners

1,015 Listeners

270 Listeners

24 Listeners

149 Listeners