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	Louisiana State Penitentiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Angola is the Louisiana State Penitentiary and is estimated to be the largest prison in the U.S. with 5,000 inmates and over 1,000 staff.
		The land that has become Angola Penitentiary was purchased by Isaac Franklin from Francis Routh during the 1830s with the profits from his slave trading firm, Armfield and Franklin, of Alexandria, Virginia and Natchez, Mississippi as four contiguous plantations.
		By the 1950s, Angola had degenerated to become one of the very worst prisons in the U.S. In 1952, 31 inmates cut their Achilles' tendons in protest of the hard work and brutality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary (484 words)

	LSP History
		Angola was all but forgotten while the state concerned itself with the depression and World War II.
		During the late 1960's, Angola became known as "The Bloodiest Prison in the South" due to the number of inmate assaults.
		ACA accreditation forms the foundation of operations at Angola and is a continuing catalyst for positive growth and change.
	www.corrections.state.la.us /lsp/history.htm (1227 words)

	Free the Angola 3!
		Wallace and Woodfox are innocent men – political prisoners convicted of the murder of a prison guard in 1972 in retaliation for their organizing on behalf of all inmates and for founding the only officially recognized chapter of the Black Panther Party in a prison.
		Angola is the largest prison in the United States, comprising 18,000 acres of what prison officials refer to as “the finest farm land in the South.” Continuing to operate under the slave labor model of production, Angola maintains a beef herd of roughly 1,500 cattle and processes approximately 4 million pounds of vegetables each year.
		Over the past three decades, the Angola 3 have been organizing hunger strikes, educating other prisoners, and becoming highly skilled “jailhouse lawyers.” Activists known for campaigning for the rights of all prisoners at Angola, the three men were branded as troublemakers and set up by a vindictive and corrupt prison hierarchy.
	www.prisonactivist.org /angola/31years.html (2478 words)

	Angola 3
		Angola is an 18,000-acre complex of antebellum plantations that the state of Louisiana purchased and converted into a prison around the turn of the century.
		The Panthers worked to mend the schism between fl and white prisoners that the prison officials manipulated to their advantage, a difficult feat considering that the prisoner housing, dining halls, and worksites were still racially segregated, with privileged living arrangements and work assignments going to white prisoners.
		The administration of the prison responded to the rise of the Panthers by filling its isolation units with activist prisoners.
	prisonactivist.org /angola/history.html (4494 words)

	Angola Penitentiary
		Angola Penitentiary is also home to 1,800 employees who live in town, descried as the "safest in America," located in the middle of the penitentiary.
		The prison is considered one of the most accessible prisons in the country.
		Angola also holds annual events for the public such as the Angola Prison Rodeo in the fall and the Arts and Crafts Festival in the spring.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/LA3158 (236 words)

	The Angola Prison Rodeo Story
		IWF buys books and word processors for the prison law library, television sets for the 64-man dormitories, and pays the cost of transportation and wages for security officers to escort prisoners to family funerals.
		Three-time champion Johnny Brooks- sentenced to the electric chair for murdering a woman during a robbery in 1975- works on the prison ranch and is one of the few inmates with regular horseback experience.
		Angola style bulldogging sends a 500-pound steer hurtling out a gate where two inmates wait to grab it head-on and try to drag it to the ground before they are thoroughly stomped.
	www.ratrun.com /angola_prison_rodeo_story.htm (1092 words)

	Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum/The Angola Story
		It is ideally situated for the prison as it is located in a rural area, surrounded on three sides by the mighty Mississippi River, and bordered on the fourth side by the rugged Tunica Hills.
		Problems at Angola were brought to light when 31 inmates cut their Achilles tendons in protest of the hard work and brutality.
		During the late 1960's, Angola became known as the "Bloodiest Prison in the South" due to the number of inmate upon inmate assaults and deaths.
	www.angolamuseum.org /story.htm (3028 words)

	Guts and Glory: Angola Prison Rodeo (1 of 3) - Angola, Louisiana - BootsnAll.com
		Angola was a prison of gang warfare and chaos.
		These are some of the prison's most trusted convicts – men who have long histories of good behavior or rehabilitation behind bars, or those who are nearing the end of their sentences.
		Angola is not like the prisons you hear about on the news, where the majority of inmates are relatively harmless drug addicts: 90 percent of the men at The Farm are violent offenders; almost half of them are in for homicide.
	www.bootsnall.com /cgi-bin/gt/travelstories/na/nov01rodeo1.shtml (1240 words)

	Prison Radio
		The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Known as "The Farm," the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the largest prison in the United States.
		On one occasion, a prisoner died after five men were locked together in a sweltering isolation cell, without food or water, during the hottest days of summer.
		Prisoners with Afro hairstyles — viewed, correctly, by officials as a political statement — had their hair forcibly shorn.
	www.prisonradio.org /angola-three.htm (4239 words)

	Burk Foster's Site / Prison History / Angola in the 1970's
		The prison population's stability or slight decline was not unlike what was going on across the rest of the country, and the trend came to an end in Louisiana at the same time as it did elsewhere--in 1972.
		By mid-1975, Angola was the number one prison in America on two counts: with 4,300 inmates, it was the largest, and with one or two inmate stabbing deaths each month, it was also the bloodiest.
		Angola had 2,500 to 3,000 of these inmates, men ineligible for parole and serving either life sentences or terms so long they could expect to be geriatric cases before they got out.
	www.burkfoster.com /Angola70s.htm (7573 words)

	Golf at Angola? - Newsday.com
		The nine-hole course, which uses two sets of tees to play as 18, was carved out of a bull pasture, built with inmate labor, and funded by proceeds from the prison's rodeo and from the recreation fund of the 200 Angola workers whose families live on the prison's grounds.
		Prison View Golf Course is not finished, but it is playable, and it's the latest brainchild of warden Burl Cain, who says the course will improve morale for the residential staff members and keep them closer to the prison and more available for emergencies.
		The fairways have Bermuda 419 grass, the rough is common Bermuda, and the drains beneath the greens have the requisite layers of sand and gravel.
	www.newsday.com /sports/ny-pris2-side2,0,3035125.story (691 words)

	Students, faculty, and staff tour Angola Prison
		It is the largest prison in the United States where 90 percent of the men are violent offenders and 63 percent of all inmates eventually die there.
		McCay, who was once a teacher at a prison in Massachusetts and familiar with prison environments, admitted that she was shocked to see the treatment of the prisoners in the J block.
		She said the prison was a machine for production and retribution rather than recovery, and the Angola prisoners who work eight hours a day, five days a week for four cents an hour are thought to be the lucky ones.
	www.loyno.edu /newsandcalendars/loyolatoday/2003/12/angola.html (437 words)

	Angola Prison System - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Prisons were primitive, and authorities apparently had wide discretion in dealing with prisoners.
		Prisoners were sometimes held incommunicado or moved from one prison to another without notification of family.
		The main detention centers for political prisoners were the Estrada de Catete prison in the capital and the Bentiaba detention camp in Namibe Province.
	www.photius.com /countries/angola/national_security/angola_national_security_prison_system.html (323 words)

	Termpapers on Angola Prison
		Angola Angola used to be considered one of the most dangerous and bloodiest prisons in the United States until the mid-70's the federal courts regulated the prison to be safer.
		The population of the prison is currently at 5108 inmates.
		After going to Angola and meeting some of the prisoners, I would seriously think about going back on my own and visiting some of the prisoners or just talking with them.
	www.custompapers.net /research/Angola_Prison-97919.html (163 words)

	In the News - Mar/Apr 2001
		According to a press release from the National Coalition to Free the Angola Three, Robert King Wilkerson, one of the Angola 3, was freed from Angola prison in early-February after spending over twenty-nine years in solitary confinement for a murder he did not commit.
		Wilkerson, 57, was convicted of the 1973 murder of a fellow Angola prisoner despite the fact that another man confessed and was convicted of the murder.
		Curtis, a prisoner in the Washington Correction Center IMU in Shelton, is being charged under the "Persistent Offender" Statute (three strikes and you're out law) for allegedly assaulting a WCC guard while being 'extracted from his isolation cell' by six armor-clad guards.
	www.november.org /razorwire/rzold/23/23News.html (1289 words)

	Life in prison - The Farm: Angola, USA, directed by Jonathan Stack and Elizabeth Garbus
		The Louisiana state penitentiary at Angola is the largest maximum security prison in the United States.
		Angola has been a prison, at one time one of the most violent in the US, since the end of the Civil War.
		Many of the prison's 1,800 employees live in a town, described as the "safest in America," in the middle of the penitentiary.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/may1998/farm-m23.shtml (1065 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| US prison rehabilitation through faith
		Its penitentiary, Angola, was once known as the most violent jail in America with inmates given little chance of rehabilitation.
		Angola's head warden, Burl Cain, who has been in charge since 1995, says he focuses on putting prisoners to work in the fields and instilling a sense of right and wrong through 'faith-based' initiatives.
		The average sentence for prisoners in Angola is eighty-eight years, so life in prison is the grim reality for most of the more than five thousand inmates there.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/2284591.stm (575 words)

	History
		The Angola Prison Rodeo is a professionally produced rodeo.
		Angola contracts with professional rodeo stock contractors to provide the rodeo stock used in events; professional judges are contracted with to objectively judge each event.
		Proceeds from the Angola Prison Rodeo cover rodeo expenses and supplement the Louisiana State Penitentiary Inmate Welfare Fund which provides for inmate educational and recreational supplies.
	www.angolarodeo.com /history.htm (592 words)

	indymedia.us :: Abu Ghraib at Angola State Prison?
		Camp J relies on about 400 prisoners to be in it out of the 5,200 in the whole plantation/prison system at Angola State Prison in Louisiana.
		The 'Angola 3' have filed a civil suit for 'cruel and unusual punishment' for violating their huamn and constitutional rights.
		Prisoners held in these conditions will have to be released into general prison population.
	indymedia.us /en/2004/12/2998.shtml (471 words)

	Angola Penitentiary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The museum includes information about the prison's history, examples of arts and crafts made by prisoners, and a somewhat provacative exhibit on the death penalty.
		The prison itself is closed to the general public.
		The prison grounds are expansive and still include a working prison farm.
	www.houstonculture.org /terra/angola.html (260 words)

	Anita Roddick: Inside Angola Prison
		We had toured the shantytowns just beyond the prison walls where families of prisoners settled to be nearer their shackled kin.
		for the murder of a white prison guard, are political prisoners, every bit the victims of an oppressive government that feels threatened by their intelligence and activism as any of the men and women in Amnesty International's campaigns.
		In the early 1970s, when the Angola Three dared to stand up for basic human rights and dignity inside the prison, Angola had been declared "the bloodiest prison in America." It was racially segregated, and inmate guards were permitted to carry loaded weapons.
	www.american-pictures.com /gallery/friends/Anita.Roddick/Angola.htm (1647 words)

	Angola, Louisiana - Remote Prison Museum with "Old Sparky"
		The Prison Museum is free and is located just outside the gates of the prison.
		It features an electric chair, a model cell you can enter, photos/stories of famous escapes, some really gory photos of prison murders, and a frightening array of homemade prison weapons confiscated over the years, including a shotgun made up of pipes that were part of a construction project.
		Also caught the Angola Prison Rodeo, held every Sunday in October (as well as one Sunday in April).
	www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==4582 (212 words)

	Review - Various Artists: Angola Prison Spirituals
		Angola has made a name for itself in corrections, from its annual rodeo celebration called "The Wildest Show in the South," a compassionate prison hospice program for elderly inmates, and a critically-acclaimed, prisoner-produced news magazine, The Angolite.
		Angola has been the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary, The Farm (1998), and Arhoolie's disc is, for me, a musical snapshot of the blues under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable.
		One of Angola's most notable blues players, Robert Pete Williams, served time for murder in the 1950's, and he's got several spirituals on this disc.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-october03/reviews/review_va-angola.html (208 words)

	Workers World Dec. 19, 2002: Demand end to dungeon conditions at Angola prison
		It came in response to atrocities reported in daily dispatches that Angola Three political prisoner Herman Wallace has been filing from the dungeon in Camp J. Several hundred of the 5,000 prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola are held in solitary confinement.
		All prisoners at Angola, but particularly those in Camp J, are suffering increased punishment at the hands of a prison administration bent on silencing voices of dissent and reform.
		The latest tactic is a memo stating that all prisoners whose names appear on a website are subject to having their outgoing mail, as well as all legal correspondence and phone calls, checked.
	www.workers.org /ww/2002/angola1219.php (843 words)

	The Farm: Angola, USA (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Therein lie some interesting insights into the victims' perspectives, which contrast sharply with the perspectives of the prisoners, and even that of the prison warden.
		It gives only a very faint outline of some portions of the history and structure of the Angola prison.
		Angola is not what this film is really about.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0139193 (477 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Known as "The Bloodiest Prison in America" in the 1960's, Louisiana State Penitentiary ("Angola") has a long history of harsh inmate treatment and inmate violence.
		Proceeds from the prison's rodeo not only pay for all its expenses, but also supplement the Inmate Welfare Fund, which provides money for various supplies for inmate education and recreation.
		Angola is the largest prison (in land area) in the entire world, sitting on 18,000 (no, not a typo - that's eighteen thousand) acres.
	www.mikebarber.org /angola2.html (449 words)

	Angola
		Angola underwent a transition from a one-party socialist state to a nominally multiparty democracy in 1992.
		Angola is the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, yet its people are among the continent's poorest.
		Angola: Government - Government After many years of one-party Marxist rule, Angola is now a struggling multiparty...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107280.html (976 words)

	RW ONLINE:Angola 3 Prisoner Released
		On February 8, Robert King Wilkerson, one of the prisoners known collectively as the Angola 3, was finally freed from Louisiana's notorious Angola prison.
		Wilkerson, along with Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, was framed by prison officials and held for almost three decades in inhumane conditions--brutally punished for the "crime" of forming a chapter of the Black Panther Party in prison and fighting against cruel and inhumane conditions.
		In 1975, Wilkerson was tried again in St. Francisville, the closest town to Angola, and a place where most of the jury pool is composed of prison employees, their families, and their friends.
	rwor.org /a/v22/1090-99/1093/wilkerson_angola3.htm (1279 words)

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