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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]
20 Sep 2023, 10:19 am
These are 12 lives that could have been unjustly taken by the state. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 4:00 am
While in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Brown filed a lawsuit accusing the police of assault, battery, and civil rights violations, including use of excessive force. [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 4:14 am
If one called Belle Reeve Penitentiary in Louisiana a “shithole,” one would do no favors for shitholes. [read post]
21 May 2023, 3:05 am
For 28 years, Calvin Duncan was incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
20 Jan 2023, 11:28 am
Henry finally walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola prison) and reunited with his family. [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 7:46 am
For example, the “Angola Two” (two former Black Panther militants convicted for killing a prison guard in 1972 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary) spent more than four decades in solitary confinement. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 2:31 pm
The defendant points out that the law clerk "served time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary" and personally knows the assistant warden who is the co-defendant and alleged assailant in this case, and that this was a "motivating factor in seeking out potential amici curiae. [read post]
5 Sep 2021, 1:15 pm
Rather than contract for a prison building contract, Mississippi elected to entice former Louisiana State Penitentiary Warden Burl Cain to become the state’s corrections chief. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 5:04 am
" This twenty-foot wide image was hung below the words "Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
18 May 2021, 9:01 pm
Louisiana. [read post]
17 May 2021, 3:33 pm
The state argued that the officer’s testimony and a brain scan showing the extent to which the pencil penetrated the officer’s brain could be introduced to show “an inmate’s opportunity for violence within the penitentiary. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 1:42 pm
Supreme Court, while Brett Jones is an inmate in the Mississippi state penitentiary. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 10:30 pm
Leading historian of Southern history Jeff Forret meticulously narrates the ordeals of twenty-seven Black Virginians, whose enslavement was compounded by convictions and whose transport to Louisiana at the hands of a Washington, DC slave trader led to a dozen years each in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 12:30 pm
Allegation: Woman temporarily staying with her cousin is repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by her cousin's husband, an assistant warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 2:52 pm
Respondent, the Warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, argues that the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) limits the powers of federal courts to overturn state criminal proceedings. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 8:55 pm
He walked out of prison later that day after serving more than 20 years at the state penitentiary in Angola, his attorney said.... [read post]
26 Aug 2020, 8:36 am
Inn was born in the Louisiana State Penitentiary — also known as Angola prison — where Alexander was serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, for a crime he didn’t commit. [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 8:35 am
Among the many cases Williams litigated was that of Albert Woodfox, one of the “Angola 3” who was held in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary for more than 40 years. [read post]
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]
