amy: that was albert woodfox speaking on democracy now! on favorite 22, 2016, three days after his release after over 40 years in solitary confinement. following his release, albert would go on to years speaking against, solitary confinement while campaigning for the release of other local prisoners. he also wrote a remarkable memoir with leslie george titled "solitary: unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. my story of transformation and hope." the memoir won an american book award anwas a finalist for both the pulitzer prize and the national book award. in 2019, juan gonzalez and i interviewed albert woodfox in our new york studio after the publication of the book. and how do you feel today? how have you adjusted after 43 years in prison? >> well, hopeful. you know, rob and i still travel around, across america and outside of america, to talk about solitary confinement, which we believe is the most horrible and brutal nonphysical attack upon a human being by another human being. throughout my four decades-plus of solitary confi

albert woodfox, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. here you are, in london as a free man. but given everything you have been through, is it possible for you to ever feel truly free? yeah, i mean philosophically, mentally and emotionally i was free long before my physical freedom. my physicalfreedom. and so my physical freedom. and so that was a part of my survival technique. it allowed me to survive being in solitary confinement for such a long period of time. i wonder in terms of, literally in terms of muscle memory, whether the way your body is, whether the way your body is, whether your muscles remember four decades in shackles, whether you still have that feeling of being in an enclosed space, literally two by three metres or has that left your body? i still have claustrophobic attacks occasionally. and i guess several times i wake up and have been disorientated, because i am used to getting up and seeing bars and stuff and you wake up bars and stuff and you wake up and you see a wall and a bedroom... fora and a bedroom... for a brief moment i am disorientated. you had