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12 Jul 2020, 8:50 am
” Former Prison Guard Sentenced to 10 years for Cover-Up That’s what happened in 2014 with former Louisiana State Penitentiary prison guard, Daniel Davis. [read post]
8 May 2020, 10:50 am
Darrill Guitroz, Darrill Henry’s son, waits outside the Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola prison) for his father on May 7, 2020. [read post]
29 Feb 2020, 7:11 am
According to an April 2019 ABC News report, that means Malcolm Alexander received just $6,580 per year for the 38 years he spent in the Louisiana State Penitentiary before being exonerated in January 2018. [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]
3 Jul 2019, 12:00 pm
I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in “Camp J,” one of the most severe lockdown units at one of America’s most brutal prisons, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 2:15 pm
But doctors at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as “Angola,” repeatedly dismissed his medical complaints. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 6:34 am
A 2015 lawsuit alleging “grossly deficient” medical care at Louisiana State Penitentiary is heading to trial Tuesday. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 7:16 am
Louisiana tops every other state in the U.S. in its incarceration rate and has more people serving life without parole sentences than Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas combined. [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]
25 May 2018, 6:41 am
Louisiana, 16-9541, is a capital case involving a prisoner convicted of murder in connection with the death of a correctional officer during an attempt to escape from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 6:09 am
In 2012, a federal judge ordered the Louisiana State Penitentiary to lower temperatures on death row to 88 degrees; at times, the heat index had reached 109. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 4:00 am
Washington was a licensed practical nurse for the Louisiana State Penitentiary from 2001 to 2011. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 10:32 am
The fraud aspect of the case was drawn from testimony by a “man who [. . .] stated that she was Louisiana Creole. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 6:30 am
Another recent case against the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola alleges that corrections staff refused to provide a blind prisoner with a cane for 16 years. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 8:08 am
Scott Krichbaum said this: “I want to make sure you never get out of the penitentiary, and I’m going to make sure you never get out of the penitentiary,” noting that Moore could not be rehabilitated and that it would be waste of time and money even to try. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 12:00 pm
We’re likely to see more big landmarks in the months ahead, Consider the case of Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola 3, who has spent more than 40 years in solitary in Louisiana State Penitentiary: he is awaiting a decision from a federal appeals court as to whether he should be allowed the unconditional release granted him by a U.S. district judge this summer. [read post]
1 Aug 2015, 2:00 am
Grace Before Dying is an award-winning photographic documentary by Lori Waselchuk that chronicles the prisoner-run hospice program at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, in Angola. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 9:30 pm
Slaves of the State presents a stunning counterhistory to this linear narrative of racial, social, and legal progress in America.Dennis Childs argues that the incarceration of black people and other historically repressed groups in chain gangs, peon camps, prison plantations, and penitentiaries represents a ghostly perpetuation of chattel slavery. [read post]
7 May 2015, 9:30 am
As I gleaned from the museum-curated detail: The artist created the drawings with colored pencils he salvaged from the accounting office of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, where Jones was an inmate at the end of his life. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 9:30 pm
New from the University of Minnesota Press: Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary, by Dennis Childs (University of California, San Diego). [read post]
