In today's New York Times, Campbell Robinson writes about Angola and Warden Burl Cain. Of the over 5,000 prisoners held at Angola, less than 200 are ever expected to leave.
AP | Posted 05.09.2012
NEW ROADS, La. -- The bad dog of the neighborhood has received a life prison sentence. The wolf dog hybrid named Chief – once ordered destroyed...
J.D. Bell | Posted 02.15.2012
Gene Marks's epic poverty fail, faith-based slavery in a Georgia prison, and making the mundane crunk.
Adrian Margaret Brune | Posted 09.28.2011
Serving Life shows a different take on the U.S. penal system's obligation to dying prisoners and those trying to change their lives before it's too late.
HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 06.15.2011
At a podium inside the Roosevelt Hotel last week, Wilbert Rideau, 69, stood before an audience of academics and journalists, as he prepared to deliver...
Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
In what began as an armed robbery gone bad, Gene Toca was convicted based on misidentifications by two eyewitnesses. Though it remains doubtful that he was even at the scene of the crime, he's been in prison since 1985.
Ira Glasser | Posted 05.25.2011
It's Christmas Day, and Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace are about to begin their 37th year in the dungeon of Angola Prison. A crucifixion. Where is the public outrage that will resurrect them?
Dr. Lawrence M. Schall | Posted 05.07.2012