News Angola 3 media coverage

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.

“if it’s a political decision why cant we get not what we are asking for but what we are due.” “we’re being very aggressive about it the governor is being aggressive about it our delegation is being aggressive about it and our leadership team is being aggressive about it.” so far costs associated with gustav have run the state of louisiana hal a billion dollars … fema will cover at least 75 percent of those costs. a federal judge reversed the conviction of one of the so called angola 3 members..

On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They work for pennies, literally. Armed guards, mostly white, ride up and down the rows on horseback, keeping watch.

A spectacular mosaic has been unveiled on the outside wall of a house in the west London suburb of Chiswick to raise awareness of African-American men confined in the notorious Angola prison, Louisiana.