Death with Dignity Through Angola’s Hospice Program
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In the Louisiana penal system, a ‘life sentence’ means just that. But behind bars and razor wire at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a maximum-security facility once called the “bloodiest prison in America,” inmates face death with dignity through … Read More

Picking Cotton at Angola
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In September 2002, I spent a day, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., documenting 51 inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary as they picked row after row of cotton in the fields surrounding the maximum-security prison known as ‘The Farm’ … Read More