Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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 .
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 men, most of whom are Black, work on the farm of the 18,000-acre maximum-security prison known as Angola -- the site of a former slave plantation -- hoeing, weeding and picking crops by hand ...
The Angola Prison Rodeo is set for every Saturday in October. ... Rodeo events begin at 1 p.m., but the gates open at 8 a.m. Tickets are $20 and on sale online at www.angolarodeo.com. Tickets can ...
It is the second-largest prison in Louisiana and is located about 70 miles northwest of New Orleans. Elayn Hunt has about half the number of prisoners held at the larger Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. [3] Since 2010, male inmates from all parishes enter the DOC system through the Hunt Reception and Diagnostic Center (HRDC) at Hunt.
The Louisiana Department of Corrections launched an investigation last week into the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola after Warden Darrel Vannoy self-reported an incident to the department ...
If you watch the documentary 'The Farm: Life inside Angola Prison' (1998), the head warden will tell you why it's called Angola. It used to be a slave plantation and the slaves came from Angola. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.143.139 ( talk ) 19:19, 30 June 2015 (UTC) [ reply ]