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23 Apr 2008, 9:35 am
In 1946, he walked away from the electric chair known as "Gruesome Gertie" when two executioners (an inmate and a guard) from the state penitentiary at Angola botched the wiring of the chair. [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]
18 Nov 2007, 8:02 am
But inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary here, many of these black sheep of society lead shadow lives as artists, newspaper editors, country singers, and, five times a year, stars of a prison rodeo and arts-and-crafts fair.... [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 9:47 am
Williams had lived in the infamously tough Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. [read post]
12 Aug 2007, 4:49 am
This year, prison officials sought funding for a 1,500-bed expansion at the maximum-security Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, opened in 1908, and a new 2,400-bed medium-security prison, but neither plan was considered. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 6:56 am
Other winners of Thurgood Marshall awards are Gary Fields of the Wall Street Journal for his coverage of the controversy surrounding the administration of the death penalty to the mentally ill, five staff members of the Columbus Dispatch and Ohio News Network for 'Deadly Convictions, about the case of Ohio death row inmate John Spirko, and the staff of The Angolite, Louisiana State Penitentiary's Prison Magazine. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 2:16 pm
A few days later, the conservative Kansas Republican chose to spend the night in a cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 12:25 am
They had implemented an order of the Hawaii Department of Corrections that Hawaiian inmates be prohibited from participating in Pascua Yaqui Native American sweat lodge ceremonies because prison gangs were using these services to organize disruption.Last week the Associated Press reported on the settlement of a lawsuit brought by by the ACLU on behalf of a Mormon prisoner against Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 5:00 am
As stated by the Court: At the time of the incident that is the subject of this suit, petitioner Keith Hudson was an inmate at the state penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 9:40 am
"In 1987, immediately after Louisiana executed 8 people in 8 1/2 weeks, the murder rate in New Orleans increased by 16.39 %. [read post]
9 Dec 2006, 7:51 pm
Sam Brownback spent Friday night in the Louisiana State Penitentiary to promote faith-based programs n prisons. [read post]
4 Dec 2006, 7:08 pm
The Kansas Republican plans to spend Friday night at Louisiana's notorious state penitentiary in Angola to highlight the problem of recidivism and programs that can help prisoners become law-abiding members of the community. ... [read post]
