174:, a prisoner rights activist who started to campaign on his behalf. Kerness founded the Control Unit Monitoring Project and worked to improve conditions for the 60 African Americans being held in solitary confinement at Trenton, for example stopping the practice of 1 am strip searches. Lutalo later found out that he had been put into the MCU because of his political views; when the number of people placed into MCUs increased, Kerness and others set up the
218:. Lutalo was held for three days in custody and released on bail before the charges were dropped. He sued La Junta Police Department on the grounds that the police chief had lied on the arrest warrant and had falsely claimed he was Nigerian, and the following year was awarded unspecified damages. After his release from prison, Lutalo has exhibited his artworks at places such as
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took an interest in his case. He was released from the MCU in 2002 and released from prison in 2009. Whilst incarcerated, Lutalo began to make collages out of newspapers and magazines as a way to show the conditions under which he was being held; after his release, he has exhibited his artworks at
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authorities stated that solitary confinement was not punishment since Lutalo had not committed any infractions. He was taken out from the MCU in 2002 and received compensation for being held in it for 16 years; he was later returned to the MCU by order of the
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which ended in a shootout with the police. He was then arrested again after a gunfight with a drug dealer in 1981 and was sentenced to a prison term of 22 to 48 years. By 1975, Lutalo was disenchanted with
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