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name: "Gary Tyler"
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description: "Los Angeles-based fibre artist and author of the memoir Stitching Freedom. Sentenced to death at 17 in Louisiana, he spent 41 years in Angola prison before his release in 2016, and learned quilting through the prison hospice programme."
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# Gary Tyler

Los Angeles-based fibre artist and author of the memoir Stitching Freedom. Sentenced to death at 17 in Louisiana, he spent 41 years in Angola prison before his release in 2016, and learned quilting through the prison hospice programme.

**Artist and author**

## Books

- [Stitching Freedom](/book/stitching-freedom)

## Coverage

- [undefined](/article/stitching-freedom-gary-tyler-angola-prison-memoir) - Memoir & Biography, 2026-11-07