i'm amy goodman with renee feltz. we are bringing you a democracy now!cial today, exclusive hour with two of the angola 3, albert woodfox, the longest standing solitary confinement prisoner in the notice states, was freed on friday. this is his first distended television radio interview. robert king was also -- is also in the new orleans studio, a member of the angola 3, held for 29 years in solitary confinement and billy sothern, one of the trial attorneys representing albert woodfox. albert, i want to go to a clip of herman wallace in his own words describing the impact of solitary confinement on his body. he spoke in phone calls from the prison that was featured in a documentary "herman's house." , >> being in a cage for such an extended period of time, it has its downfalls. amy: that was herman wallace describing solitary confinement. in theay dying of cancer hospital, a judge ruled he should be released immediately. the prison warden said he would not be coming back to the prison immediately and the judge said, if he did not release herman wallace,

criminal justice correspondent renee feltz, go to democracynow.org. in burns, oregon, as many as 500 people faced off yesterday in competing protests over the ongoing armed occupation of the federal wildlife reserve. on january 2, a right-wing anti-government militia took over the wildlife refuge in support of two ranchers sentenced to prison for setting fires that burned federal land. the ranchers later turned themselves in to authorities, but militia members continued their occupation despite the protest of local residents. on monday, both residents opposed to the occupation and some of their supporters rallied in front of the harney county courthouse during a tense stand off that lasted more than two hours. there are reportedly only four remaining militia members continuing the armed occupation. in kansas, a u.s. military veteran is fighting to regain custody of five of his children after kansas took them into child custody last year over the man's use of medical marijuana. raymond schwab says he treats his ptsd and chronic pain with homemade canna