--- description: "I don't think a person can go through that and come up unscathed," says King, who was released in 2001. title: Angola Three: Robert King Reflects On Life In Solitary image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Robert King, One of the Angola Three, Reflects on Life in Solitary by [Joanna Plucinska](/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2015 6:00 AM CUT by [Joanna Plucinska](/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2015 6:00 AM CUT Robert King watched the world alone through a small window in his cell for almost three decades as a member of the “Angola Three.” “We were caged up,” he told [AP](http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article%5F2015-06-10-US--Angola%20Three/id-3ea2c919b0944c249d70ab12348393d3 "undefined") of his solitary confinement in the Angola prison in Louisiana. “I don’t think a person can go through that and come up unscathed.” The “Angola Three” were convicted of killing a prison guard in 1973, [AP](http://news.yahoo.com/last-angola-3-inmates-waits-decision-release-070534532.html "undefined") reports. King was released in 2001. Now King is waiting to see if another member of the group, Albert Woodfox, will be freed from solitary confinement after a judge ordered his immediate release last week. Read more [here](http://news.yahoo.com/last-angola-3-inmates-waits-decision-release-070534532.html "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3917275/robert-king-angola-three-solitary-confinement-albert-woodfox-louisiana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3917275/robert-king-angola-three-solitary-confinement-albert-woodfox-louisiana/"},"headline":"Robert King, One of the Angola Three, Reflects on Life in Solitary","datePublished":"2015-06-11T06:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:06:42.000Z","description":"\"I don't think a person can go through that and come up unscathed\"","url":"https://time.com/3917275/robert-king-angola-three-solitary-confinement-albert-woodfox-louisiana/","keywords":["Crime","Louisiana"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joanna Plucinska","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joanna-plucinska/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3917275/robert-king-angola-three-solitary-confinement-albert-woodfox-louisiana/","name":"Robert King, One of the Angola Three, Reflects on Life in Solitary"}}]}] ```