Free The Angola 3 (written by John Schuler)
If you’re not remotely a political person, I guess you can skip this one. How you can avoid politics altogether in this day and age is amazing, but whatever floats your boat, I guess. Anyway, this is the story of three prisoners, how they were framed and/or convicted based on suspect testimony and little to no physical evidence, and where they are today. One of them made it out, after years spent in solitary confinement, and he’s now working to free the other two. I don’t claim to have any idea of all the facts in this story (although you could go to http://www.angola3.org/ if you’re curious), but what they have compiled here is pretty damning stuff. Also the last few pages of the comic are given over to phone numbers, addresses and other contact info to everybody who could be contacted in this, from the prison warden all the way up to John Ashcroft (this was put out a few years ago). It even has the addresses of the guys in jail, if you wanted to contact them. I’m not going to make any judgements on guilt or innocence, as this was obviously done in the hopes of freeing these men, so any contrary evidence wouldn’t be presented. Either way, it’s a fascinating story and they do a pretty good job of laying it all out in the comic.
