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22 Mar 2015, 3:21 pm
He may now be free, but justice has not been done, and time is running out.Louisiana, much to Stroud's surprise, but probably nobody else's, has been staunchly resisting paying Ford any sort of compensation for the years he spent in their state penitentiaries. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 3:21 pm
He may now be free, but justice has not been done, and time is running out.Louisiana, much to Stroud's surprise, but probably nobody else's, has been staunchly resisting paying Ford any sort of compensation for the years he spent in their state penitentiaries. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 7:33 pm
Eleven months ago, he walked out of a Louisiana penitentiary after spending 30 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 2:17 pm
He served time in the penitentiary after failing on shock probation. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 7:08 am
United States, 14-282, is yet another gift from the St. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 8:53 am
A federal court recently ordered Louisiana to install air conditioning in at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [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]
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]
6 Jan 2014, 7:42 am
Authorities first moved Woodfox to isolation in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and later to "closed-cell restriction" at state jails. [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]
9 Oct 2013, 6:44 pm
His legal appeals brought his freedom last week when a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled his indictment had been unconstitutional because the grand jury excluded women.Wallace had only a few days to savor the victory.One of the ‘Angola 3,’ whose long-term solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola became a cause celebre for prison reform advocates, Wallace died of complications of liver cancer Friday in New Orleans, his attorneys said. [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]
6 Oct 2013, 6:26 am
The New York Times today reports on a Southern Baptist Bible College that operates inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [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]
8 Jul 2013, 9:30 am
Herman Wallace is in a Louisiana penitentiary, where he has spent decades in solitary. [read post]
18 Oct 2012, 9:50 am
In United States v. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 2:52 pm
We worked on that bill with unlikely allies – Burl Cain (the warden of Angola State Penitentiary) and the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops. [read post]
30 May 2012, 5:45 pm
Arabie is also, in the opinion of Warden Burl Cain and many others, perhaps the most rehabilitated man in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola – a model inmate who has turned his life around, learned a trade and prepared himself about as well as one can for life as a free man. [read post]
30 May 2012, 9:02 am
We've forged an unlikely alliance with Burl Cain, the warden of Louisiana's largest and most famous prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, to reduce the number of nonviolent inmates. [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]
