The only way for outsiders to reach Angola is via a winding 26-mile road that leads to the penitentiary’s front gate. I arrived early in the morning and was greeted by Angola staff, who sat me ...

When Garner entered the gates at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana ... more people a year than we released out the front gate," Cain said. Many serving life sentences no longer ...

When Garner entered the gates at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana ... more people a year than we released out the front gate,” Cain said. Many serving life sentences no longer ...

Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend their wares at market rate: a rodeo. Incarcerated individuals ...

The MTV Documentary Films and Cinque Northern project Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison tells the story of when Peterson's one-woman play The Peculiar Patriot was shut down ...

Several months ago, in a lawsuit that was in its ninth year, a federal judge blasted the medical care at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola ... door on the prison gate and to put the ...

officially called the Louisiana State Penitentiary but commonly known as Angola or “the Farm.” The measure failed. Similar measures on the ballot in four other states — Alabama, Oregon ...

And at that time, 85% of those sent to Angola would die there, according to Cain and others. "We buried more people a year than we released out the front gate," Cain said. Many serving life sentences ...

More than a quarter century after an inmate helped start a hospice program in one of the nation's most notorious prisons, he is trying to spread the idea.