Blogs about: Louisiana State Penitentiary
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Our Father Who Art in Prison
Sweatshirt for sale in the Angola Museum gift shop reads "Angola: A Gated Community" You sometimes have to wonder why the state of Louisiana doesn’t just transform Angola prison into a year-… more →
Solitary Watch
Our Father Who Art in Prison
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wrote 3 days ago: Sweatshirt for sale in the Angola Museum gift shop reads "Angola: A Gated Community" You s … more →
Film Documents the Angola 3's 100+ Years of Solitude
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wrote 1 week ago: Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox in the early 1970s. Photo from "In the Land of the Free... … more →
Voices from Solitary: New Memoir by Wilbert Rideau
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wrote 1 month ago: Many readers of Solitary Watch will already know something about the remarkable life of Wilbert Ride … more →
Angola Aftermath
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wrote 4 months ago: Hi, Friend! Welcome back! May I say, that the trip to Angola Penitentiary (click here for their web … more →
Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners
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wrote 4 months ago: The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections last Friday sued every inmate on death row … more →
ACLU Gets One Angola Prisoner Released from Solitary
wrote 4 months ago: The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is kept busy trying to safeguard the basic constitut … more →
The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison
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wrote 5 months ago: The Associated Press today put out a laudatory piece on Warden Burl Cain’s program of Christia … more →
A Louisiana Inmate's Death Wish
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wrote 5 months ago: Death Chamber, Angola Prison Barring a last-minute stay (which is highly unlikely), Gerald Bordelon … more →
Southern Injustice: 37 Years in Solitary
wrote 5 months ago: Over the past year, I’ve been writing about the Angola 3 in a series of stories for Mother Jon … more →
Prison Radio in the UK and the US
wrote 5 months ago: Brixton Prison governor Paul McDowell: 'We don't let them have too much fun.' Photograph … more →
Damon Winter reflects upon the Angola rodeo
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wrote 7 months ago: Too Much Chocolate When Jake Stangel put out a call to interview Damon Winter for Too Much Chocolate … more →
Tim McKulka on the Angola Prison Rodeo
wrote 10 months ago: Yes folks, a US prison runs a rodeo for the entertainment of the public (from Louisiana and beyond). … more →
Prisons Becoming Warehouses for the Old
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wrote 11 months ago: AGING BEHIND BARS SERIES I have written hefore about the aging population in American prisons and ja … more →
Angola Prison Football
wrote 11 months ago: “At one time Angola was well known as the bloodiest penitentiary in America. And now you don … more →
Protests Force Call Off For Talk by Iconic US Prison Warden
wrote 1 year ago: Burl Cain A talk by acclaimed US warden Burl Cain to Scottish business leaders has been cancelled af … more →
Iconic US Jail Boss to Give Leadership Masterclass in Scotland
wrote 1 year ago: Burl CainThe warden credited with cleaning up America’s most notorious prison – Louisian … more →
The hell of solitary confinement
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wrote 1 year ago: In the March 30 issue of the New Yorker, Atul Gawande asks the question, “Is solitary confinem … more →
Damon Winter: Angola Prison Rodeo
wrote 1 year ago: The blogo-photo-sphere has been spinning the past couple of days with the 2009 Pulitzer Prize announ … more →
The Angola 3: 36 Years of Solitude
wrote 1 year ago: AGING BEHIND BARS SERIES For the last several weeks, I’ve been working on this story, which ap … more →
