Summary

In Chapter 10, Woodfox meets members of the Black Panther Party in prison. They teach prisoners how to read, give them extra food from their plates, and talk about economics, revolution, oppression, and institutionalized racism. This changes Woodfox; he sees black men as victims of institutionalized racism. Chapter 11 recounts the beginnings of the Black Panther Party and its goals of equal opportunities, an end to racism and economic depravity, and the use of violence only in self-defense.

Chapter 12 recounts the 1970 inmate protest for sanitary conditions, shorter timespans before trial, edible food, and an end to violence against prisoners. In the Tomb and at other prisons, the protests were crushed by brute force and the prisoners beaten in numerous and inhumane ways. Woodfox is pressured into pleading guilty and sent to Rikers. His prints catch up with him, and he is extradited to Louisiana to...