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  2. Louisiana State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    A former Angola prisoner, William Sadler (also called "Wooden Ear" because of hearing loss he suffered after a prison attack), wrote a series of articles about Angola in the 1940s. Hell on Angola helped bring about prison reform. [26] In February 1951, 31 inmates, in protest of the prison's conditions, cut their own Achilles tendons.

  3. Angola Three - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. The Farm: Angola, USA - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Louisiana prisoner suit claims they’re forced to endure ...

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    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 ...

  6. Louisiana moves juveniles from adult penitentiary but ... - AOL

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    Friday was the deadline a federal judge had set for moving the youths from the prison at Angola in rural West Feliciana Parish. ... death row building at Louisiana's adult penitentiary were ...

  7. Albert Woodfox, former Black Panther who spent 43 years in ...

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    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 ...

  8. Robert Hillary King - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Warden of Louisiana's Angola prison reinstated amid probe

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    The warden of the largest maximum security prison in the U.S. has been reinstated after being placed on a week-long leave during a payroll investigation, authorities said Tuesday. The Louisiana ...