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Panthers in the Hole by Bruno Cénou, David Cénou
5.0
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This was a powerful narrative that packs a large amount of information in a short amount of pages. The Angola 3 Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace served decades in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is a inhumane practice that continues to be practiced today, where prisoners are kept in a cell 23 hours a day, and have extremely limited contact with others. The United States continues to use this practice in prisons across America to mostly black and brown bodies. The Angola 3 were charged and convicted for crimes they didn't commit. Their sentences were exacerbated because of their involvement with the Black Panther movement.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary was "created after the civil war, built on five former plantations it's named after the Homeland of it's original forced laborers." This comic focuses on the blame, humiliation and injustice that three black men faced because prisoners are treated as sub-human in the U.S. prison system. Supporting black liberation within prison walls was also a threat to the prison system because when prisoners can advocate for their own humanity they are not easily cast aside.Political prisoners within the United States show just how intolerant the U.S. can be to people who want to think, organize and act for themselves.
This was a powerful reflection on the inhuman practices of prisons and the reasons that we need to fight to change the criminal justice system as it exists. Using people that are paid only 3-35 cents and hour for work is slavery. I would recommend this to everyone, it highlights how our criminal justice system has and continues to operate in inherently racist and unjust ways. On February 19, 2016 the Albert Woodfox was released after four decades in solitary confinement, he died three days later from cancer. Robert Hillary King writes a great Afterword and states:
This was a powerful narrative that packs a large amount of information in a short amount of pages. The Angola 3 Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace served decades in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is a inhumane practice that continues to be practiced today, where prisoners are kept in a cell 23 hours a day, and have extremely limited contact with others. The United States continues to use this practice in prisons across America to mostly black and brown bodies. The Angola 3 were charged and convicted for crimes they didn't commit. Their sentences were exacerbated because of their involvement with the Black Panther movement.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary was "created after the civil war, built on five former plantations it's named after the Homeland of it's original forced laborers." This comic focuses on the blame, humiliation and injustice that three black men faced because prisoners are treated as sub-human in the U.S. prison system. Supporting black liberation within prison walls was also a threat to the prison system because when prisoners can advocate for their own humanity they are not easily cast aside.Political prisoners within the United States show just how intolerant the U.S. can be to people who want to think, organize and act for themselves.
This was a powerful reflection on the inhuman practices of prisons and the reasons that we need to fight to change the criminal justice system as it exists. Using people that are paid only 3-35 cents and hour for work is slavery. I would recommend this to everyone, it highlights how our criminal justice system has and continues to operate in inherently racist and unjust ways. On February 19, 2016 the Albert Woodfox was released after four decades in solitary confinement, he died three days later from cancer. Robert Hillary King writes a great Afterword and states:
"So if you are duly convicted of a crime--I mean legally convicted of a crime-- you can become a slave, and if you are legally sentenced to death they can kill you."