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An overdue book has been returned to a Northern California library after nearly 100 years. Overdue by 96 years, it was checked out in 1927 and was recently returned to the St. Helena Public ...

Someone in Hennepin County, Minnesota, found a book that was over 100 years late to the library -- where officials confirmed it was theirs. From Saint Paul Public Library/X. CNN — ...

Known as one of the Angola Three, along with Robert King and Herman Wallace, Woodfox served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was released in 2016.

Albert Woodfox served more than 40 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana's Angola Prison for a crime he says he didn't commit. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Woodfox about his new book, Solitary.

I’ve Spent 27 Years in Solitary Confinement. ... Being in solitary confinement, these books are my community. A lot of these guys, I’ve read their books over and over.

In “Solitary,” an account of his 40 years in Angola, one of America’s most notorious prisons, Albert Woodfox takes up the challenge Downey declined.The result is a book that is wrenching ...

As a 16-year-old high school student, Browder was arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack. Held at Rikers Island for three years—two of which he spent in solitary confinement.

The book "No Human Contact" examines what to do with people in prison who are deemed dangerous, and whether isolation is cruel and unusual punishment. Author Pete Earley profiles two men who spent ...

Albert Woodfox was held in solitary confinement for more than 40 years in a Louisiana prison before being released in 2016, when he was 69 years old. In his book Solitary, published last month ...

A wayward teenager from New Orleans, Woodfox's Angola dream became a hellish nightmare soon enough: 40 years in solitary confinement, longer than any prisoner in American history, ...

COMSTOCK, N.Y. -- For murdering an Onondaga County Sheriff's Office deputy, William "Billy" Blake says he believed he deserved to die. Blake, after 29 years in solitary confinement, says he ...