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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]
18 Oct 2018, 2:15 pm
But doctors at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as “Angola,” repeatedly dismissed his medical complaints. [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]
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]
7 Jul 2009, 12:55 am
Catholic prisoners on death row at Louisiana's maximum-security state penitentiary at Angola will now have an opportunity to celebrate mass. [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]
30 Dec 2009, 6:42 am
Mother Jones For the better part of four decades, Victory Wallace, 70, has made a monthly trip from New Orleans to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola to visit her brother Herman, who just turned 68. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 4:20 pm
This afternoon, Innocence Project client Henry James walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola a free man for the first time in three decades. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 8:05 am
Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of Rickie Johnson's exoneration from Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana. [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]
15 Feb 2010, 10:17 am
Each of the 84 prisoners in the "death house" at Angola State Penitentiary was personally served papers in the suit, said Nick Trenticosta, who has represented numerous clients on Angola's death row.The complete report at Solitary Watch is, "Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners," posted by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella.Trenticosta, who is also director of the non-profit Center for Equal Justice in New Orleans, knows of no… [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]
20 Feb 2009, 11:11 am
FRANCISVILLE - West Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a Louisiana State Penitentiary social worker on one count of aggravated rape involving an inmate. [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]
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]
8 May 2008, 5:28 am
Link: AP via NOLA.comLink: Plan Your Next Family Vacation at the Louisiana State Penitentiary [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 1:19 pm
"Free after 14 years on death row, man seeks to help other falsely accused ex-prisoners," is the title of Lolis Eric Elie's report for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.When John Thompson's lawyers arrived at Angola State Penitentiary for a somber meeting more than a decade ago, he didn't ask for much detail about his case. [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]
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]
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]
