PenitentiarycommunitiesThis article examines the importance of inmate-produced journalism through a critical/cultural lens and challenges readers to question the current agendas of U.S. journalism. With the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola as a point of reference, I illustrate that inmate-produced...
The Louisiana State Penitentiary rises out of the fields at the end of the highway, tucked into a bend in the Mississippi River. It's been 14 years since Cannon sat in his dental office, alone, stewing over the betrayal, and now he walks through the front gate at Angola and everyone s...
prison system expanded at an unprecedented rate, with the South emerging as the region with the highest incarceration rate in the nation. This article charts how prisoners at the nation's largest maximum-security prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly referred to as Angola, leveraged ...
Barring a last-minute intervention by the US supreme court, Jessie Hoffman, 46, is scheduled to die by nitrogen gas on Tuesday at Louisiana state penitentiary, commonly known as Angola prison. He was sentenced to death for the 1996 rape and murder of an advertising executive, Mary Elliott.S...
The inmate population within the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) at Angola in 2004 is close to 5,100 with approximately 94 percent of those inmates expected to die while incarcerated. Corrections administrators are being forced to determine new ways to adapt to and deal more effectively with ...
Robert’s Talking Blues Robert Pete Williams plays a long intense blues for the camera during a 1968 taping at the University of Washington. In December 1958 Robert Pete Williams was paroled form the Louisiana State Penitentiary and by 1965 was able to tour the country, traveling to California,...
Generations of men have labored in the fields at Louisiana State Penitentiary. It is the country's largest maximum-security prison, built on the site of a former slave plantation called Angola. Vincent Simmons: You know we had to work seven days a week. … 'til it gets dark. …That's...
He had an additional major heart attack after an inmate he had grown close to as chaplain of the Mississippi State Penitentiary was executed, Dixon said, and then spent the last years of his life in and out of the hospital with congestive heart failure. ...
Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) By SARA CLINE Updated 2:09 PM GMT+8, March 8, 2025 Share BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first...
Kennedy and Prejean are both from Louisiana, the state which is scheduled to carry out the second execution in the upcoming 10-day spate. If it goes ahead, it will be Louisianas first use of the death chamber since 2010.Jessie Hoffman, who is Black, is set to die on 18 March for the...