Exonerated Angola Prisoner Dies After Nearly 30 Years in Solitary Confinement - ABC News
Ford would have still been on death row if not for a confidential informant who told police in 2013 that someone else confessed to him about the murder that Ford was accused of committing. Lawyer and friend William Most told ABC News Ford was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer several months after being released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Ford was featured on ABC News’ ”Nightline” in April and agreed to meet with the prosecutor who put him behind bars, who wrote an open apology letter after Ford was exonerated. When he left prison in 2014, Most said Ford, then 64, only had $20 to his name. Ford was involved in three lawsuits at the time of his death, two federal suits for which Most was representing him and one state suit. The federal suits were for compensation for his wrongful imprisonment and inadequate health treatment, and the state suit was a separate compensation suit. Most said Ford was able to visit California since being released from prison and one of his sons came to Louisiana to see him before he died. Though they were located in the same prison and overlapped by several decades, Ford was not a member of the Angola Three , a group of three prisoners who were put in solitary confinement ranging from 29 to 43. Source: abcnews.go.com
