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This is a story about a double crucifixion happening on the very day that hundreds of millions of Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus.

The office of the Louisiana attorney general is swamped. It’s managing cases of Hurricane Katrina fraud, political corruption and white-collar crime. But when it comes to the 36-year-old murder of an Angola prison guard, Attorney General James Buddy Caldwell says he’s handling the case himself. And to him, it’s personal.

We may be on the brink of inaugurating a Black president, but the miscarriage of justice unfolding in Louisiana with the case of the Angola 3 tells a different story about race, power and accountability in our criminal justice system. At the top of the food chain is self-styled reformer and the GOP’s supposed answer to Obama, Governor Bobby Jindal.

At Louisiana’s notorious Angola Prison, which sits on a former slave plantation, prisoners are doing more than surviving. They are organizing.