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8 May 2008, 5:28 am
Link: AP via NOLA.comLink: Plan Your Next Family Vacation at the Louisiana State Penitentiary [read post]
4 Jun 2018, 10:42 am
Criminal Appeal May Change 99-Year Prison Sentence In 2003, a 10 out of 12 jury decision in a New Orleans court voted to send a defendant to the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 99 years. [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 10:19 am
These are 12 lives that could have been unjustly taken by the state. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 12:51 pm
In 1987, eight men were electrocuted at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola within the span of eleven weeks, during a decade when 18 state inmates were executed for crimes they committed. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 5:56 am
Earlier this month, Glenn Ford, an African-American man, walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary after spending thirty years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 10:01 am
Supreme Court to examine the Louisiana state law that provides the death penalty for non-homicidal child rape. [read post]
10 Oct 2013, 4:09 am
One of the ‘Angola 3,’ whose long-term solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola became a cause celebre for prison... [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 9:30 am
Herman Wallace is in a Louisiana penitentiary, where he has spent decades in solitary. [read post]
24 May 2011, 2:26 pm
One of the most outspoken people realizing that many of these elderly folks don't need to be locked up is Burl Cain — the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary, the largest prison in the state. [read post]
21 May 2012, 4:36 pm
Louisiana locks up more people per capita than any other state. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 4:29 am
At Texas Monthly's website, Annie Melton reflects on the looming question: "Will a ruling on extreme conditions at the Louisiana State Penitentiary influence lawsuits pending in Texas? [read post]
21 May 2012, 7:53 am
A trio of drug convictions can be enough to land you at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for the rest of your life. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 7:02 am
First, just because Tapps was only sentenced to seven months in state jail and "traditional felonies" required a year in the penitentiary didn't make the statute any less applicable. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 11:35 am
Collectively they have spent more than 100 years in isolation, most of it at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:10 pm
He looked around incredulously at his surroundings — a late summer Sunday afternoon in the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s west yard, men playing basketball and lifting weights, stray cats sunning themselves on concrete ledges, an idyllic scene if one did not look to the barbed wire fences in the distance. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 5:01 am
Check out this NY Times story about Calvin Duncan, a jailhouse lawyer, who convinced the Supreme Court to hear a case about whether juries could convict without a unanimous verdict:“For 23 years, I was a jailhouse lawyer,” said Calvin Duncan, a former inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 9:30 pm
"The Organization of American Historians will award two grants of $10,000—one for an advanced Ph.D. student or early-career scholar, and the other for a mid/later-career scholar—to support research in The Visiting Room archive, a collection of over 100 filmed interviews with incarcerated individuals at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Angola who are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 6:47 am
Wallace's story is notable because he spent 41 years in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 5:32 am
For the lifers grinding it out at Angola, a former slave plantation, hope was in scarce supply; then came the Southern Baptist Bible College.The Louisiana State Penitentiary has implemented a voluntary educational program with private funding to provide a college degree to inmates doing a dime or more in the joint. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 12:18 pm
By JAMES ELLIS - Tuesday, June 16, 2009Burl Cain, 67, is warden of the tough Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. [read post]
