Deep in the Louisiana hills, a long winding road dead ends at Angola, a prison unlike any other. It’s the size of Manhattan, 30 miles from the nearest town, a place unto itself. It was in this faraway place that a 23-year-old corrections officer was stabbed to death with a lawnmower blade in 1972. In the almost 40 years since, those are about the only details of the crime anyone can agree on.
