Summary

In Chapter 23, Woodfox, Wallace and King get themselves sent to the dungeon specifically to save a young inmate from being raped. In Chapter 24 the prisoners of CCR went on a hunger strike for food slots in their doors, so food would not be slid to them on the dirty floors as if they were animals. They fasted until they were promised the food slots, 45 days, but did not receive the food slots for nearly two years. Woodfox notes his greatest achievement in Chapter 25, that of teaching a man to read. Woodfox himself had a voracious reading appetite—politics, biographies, independence movements, philosophy, geography—and discussed the books with King.

In Chapter 26 Woodfox, King, and Wallace protest the daily and humiliating strip searches. After a lengthy lawsuit, a judge rules that strip searches can only be conducted under certain limits and conditions. In Chapter...