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In the documentary "Cruel and Unusual," three men share their harrowing experience of being wrongfully convicted of murder and spending decades in solitary confinement. Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, and Robert King were targeted for their involvement with the Black Panther party and were imprisoned at Angola, the Louisiana state penitentiary. Despite a lack of physical evidence, they were convicted based on bribed and coerced testimony. The film exposes the injustices they faced and their relentless fight for freedom, which ultimately led to Albert Woodfox's release after 43 years in isolation.

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