![]() I have a friend in Angola Prison who has been there for over fifty years. Once a slave plantation, it is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi river. I have grown close to a number of men who reside in this prison built on eighteen thousand acres of rural Louisiana farmland. This is the fiftieth anniversary of the convict rodeo and thousands are in attendance seated in an outdoor stadium constructed for this event. Once known as the bloodiest prison in the world, Angola has gone through a radical restoration over the past twenty years. Angola State Prison is the biggest prison in the US housing over six thousand inmates, with the majority serving life without parole. ![]() ![]() I am witnessing this first hand as I am in attendance at the world famous Angola Prison Rodeo. It is amazing the lengths to which a person will go, and the depths a person can be pushed to when properly motivated. ![]()
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