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The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm" [8]) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named "Angola" after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory.
The Angola Three, left to right: Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, and Robert Hillary King Louisiana State Penitentiary, the prison where the Angola Three were confined. The Angola Three are three African American former prison inmates (Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace) who were held for decades in solitary confinement while imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary (also ...
The Farm: Angola, USA is a 1998 award-winning documentary set in the notorious and largest American maximum-security prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Loosely based on articles published in Life Sentences , drawn from the prison magazine, The Angolite , the film was directed and produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus .
Albert Woodfox, a former Black Panther who spent 43 years in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary — commonly called Angola — has died at the age of 75 from COVID-19 ...
Louisiana State Penitentiary, where King has been confined.. Robert Hillary King (born May 30, 1942 [1]), also known as Robert King Wilkerson, is an American known as one of the Angola Three, former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement for decades after being convicted in 1973 of prison murders.
America's most famous prison rodeo returns this fall to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, where the event known as "The Wildest Show in the South" will draw tens of thousands of fans.
Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when ...
Louisiana State Penitentiary, the site of the rodeo. The Angola Prison Rodeo, staged at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is the longest running prison rodeo in the United States. It is held on one weekend in April and on every Sunday in October. On each occasion, thousands of visitors enter the prison complex. [1]