Biography
Albert "Nuh" Washington was a New Afrikan Black Liberation Army prisoner of war, born in New York City. A Black Panther Party member, he was convicted along with Anthony 'Jalil' Bottom and Herman Bell in the 1971 killings of two NYPD officers (the BLA case that ran parallel to the Dhoruba bin Wahad case). The prosecutor admitted he could not say what role Washington played but asked the jury to convict him on his beliefs. He served nearly 30 years, much of it in solitary, before dying of liver cancer in custody on April 28, 2000.
The May 30, 1975 statement in the July newsletter individually names this prisoner in its contemporary political-prisoner account. The statement documents historical imprisonment rather than a new arrest or a current custody claim. It supplies no new individual discharge or complete sentence duration. Black Community News Letter, volume13, July1975, Awakening of a Dragon, original PDF page 22. Source: https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC32_scans/32.BlackComNewsletter.AwakeningofaDragon.pdf#page=22
The New York Five trial was underway in March 1974
The April 10, 1974 bulletin individually names Albert Washington among the New York Five, with Herman Bell, Anthony Bottoms, Gabriel and Francisco Torres, and Albert Washington. It reports that their trial on the May 21, 1971 police-killing charges began March 11, 1974 after pretrial motions, and was still underway when this issue was prepared. The source’s names and case context correspond to this existing profile; the 1971 date is the alleged offense, not every defendant’s arrest day.
This is a contemporary report of a pending trial, not a report of final conviction, dismissal, admission or discharge. It is kept separate from later trial outcomes and other prosecutions already described here. No new imprisonment interval or counter is inferred from the trial opening or the general appeal for prisoner support.
Friends of Assata Shakur and Sundiata Acoli Bulletin, no. 4, April 10, 1974, original PDF pages 4. Contemporary descriptions are attributed to the bulletin.
The Summer 1995 Breakthrough prisoner-support directory lists Albert Nuh Washington, with historical prisoner number 77-A-1528, at Clinton Correctional Facility, Box 2001, Dannemora NY 12929-2001. This is the directory’s historical correspondence address, not a current mailing instruction or present custody claim. It supplies no admission, transfer or release day and no completed custody total.
Breakthrough, Summer 1995, Write Through the Walls, PDF page58.
The Little–Remiro report identifies Albert Washington as a prisoner witness, convicted the previous year with two other men in the New York police killings case, and says he corresponded with the defendants. Alleged guards’ violence is attributed testimony. No new custody endpoint established.
The appendix names him among prisoners in an alleged February 16, 1975 Rikers Island escape attempt. This confirms historical confinement on that date, not an original admission or final discharge. The account is attributed to the state report; no new conviction or sentence is inferred from the alleged attempt. The earlier Tombs account places the Torres brothers, Washington, Anthony Bottoms and Herman Bell in custody awaiting trial.
Report of the New York State Policy Study Group on Terrorism, November 1985, PDF page 85.
