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"Freelines" for political prisoners

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One November 4th, NPR's Story of the Day podcast was about Robert 'King' Wilkerson who was in the Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana for 31 years. They became known as the Angola Three. While in solitary confinement, he created a kitchen from a stove made of coke cans and he burnt toilet paper rolls to get heat.

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