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Robert King Wilkerson\\xa0was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana for 31 years. Twenty-nine of those years he was in solitary confinement. During that time he created a clandestine kitchen in his 6\\xd79 cell where he made pralines, heating the the butter and sugar he saved\\xa0from his food tray over a tiny burner concocted from a Coke can and a toilet paper roll. King and two of his friends started a chapter of the Black Panthers in Angola Prison during the 1970s. King\\u2019s case was overturned in 2001 and he was released. He lectures around the world and makes candy \\u2014 which he called Freelines \\u2014 to bring attention to issues of prison reform and the plight of The Angola Three.\\xa0King was living in New Orleans during Katrina, refused to leave his dog, and weathered the storm in his apartment. Two weeks in,\\xa0his friends from Austin bought a boat and\\xa0went in to get him.