herman wallace was freed in 2013 only after a federal judge threatened to jail the warden of angola prisonefused to release him. hermann wallace died one day after his release of liver cancer. but the state of louisiana continued to refuse to release albert woodfox. he was eventually freed on what was his 69th birthday, february 19, 2016. three days after his release, democracy now!'s renee feltz and i interviewed albert woodfox in his first live tv interview. albertoodfox, can you talk about your plans today -- you have walked out of the prison. you have not been free and 45 years. what are you most struck by? what are your greatest challenges now or your moments of joy since friday? >> for me, as strange as it may sound, when i was in prison, i had established who i was and ways to fight for what i believed in. being released into society, i am having to learn different techniques, you know, of how to -- i'm just trying to learn how to be free. i've been locked up so long in a prison within a prison. so for me, it's just about learning how to live as a free person and just take my time.

herman wallace, who was your friend, who was a fellow black panther.prison. you organised other prisoners. you formed an antirape squad to try and control the sexual assaults and abuse inside your wing of the prison. so you weren't hiding your black panther loyalty. no, and to be honest, we actually lasted longer than we thought because there was an internal conflict in the new... ..doc secretary, department of corrections, so mr miller was murdered in that environment. so you are convicted of a crime, which of course, you insist, always insisted you simply did not commit. but the fact is you were hauled off to that special part of the prison for the solitary confinement prisoners. and it began — life in a cell of two metres by three metres. and i think everyone watching and listening to this will not be able to get their head around what you then experienced for 43 years and ten months. so try and capture it for me. well, it's kind of hard to find words to imagine the horror of being confined to a nine foot long, six foot wide cell. the actual space i