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    Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana...
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    The Angola Prison Rodeo, staged at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is the longest running prison rodeo in the United States. It is held on one weekend...
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    The Angola Three are three African American former prison inmates (Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace) who were held for decades...
    35 KB (4,084 words) - 22:31, 14 August 2024
  • February 17, 1952) is an American man who was a life prisoner at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, where he was sentenced to 100 years in July 1977 after...
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    EHCC, LCIW (♀) LSP (Angola) PCC RCC Al.CC WCC This is a list of adult state prisons in Louisiana. It does not include federal prisons or parish jails located...
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    Louisiana with the Louisiana State Penitentiary, otherwise known as the Angola Prison. It was considered difficult to access, requiring drivers to branch...
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    officer who served as the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary (or Angola Prison), the largest maximum-security in the United States, from 1990 to 1995...
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  • The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It was nominated for an Academy...
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    became an author and award-winning journalist while held for 44 years at Angola Prison. Rideau was convicted in 1961 of first-degree murder of Julia Ferguson...
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  • Thumbnail for Angolan Civil War
    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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  • – June 29, 2015) was convicted of murder in 1984 and released from Angola Prison in March 2014 after a full exoneration. Ford was born in Shreveport...
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    Burl Cain (category American prison wardens)
    radio. Filmed events at the prison include the Angola Prison Rodeo, football, and boxing matches. Cain established a prison-run hospice program in 1997...
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  • "Junker's Blues", with its stories about needles and reefer and the Angola prison farm was recorded by Dupree in 1940. In 1949 Fats Domino reworked the...
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  • recurring season 1), Gina and Jimmy's eldest son, who was released from Angola Prison after Adam killed his brother Rocco Margo Martindale as Elizabeth Guthrie...
    63 KB (2,879 words) - 00:51, 11 August 2024
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    People's Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República Popular de Angola) was the self-declared socialist state which governed Angola from its independence...
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    Productions also produced a documentary that was shot in the hospice at Angola prison in Louisiana, Serving Life (2011), which was produced for Oprah Winfrey...
    64 KB (6,041 words) - 03:49, 1 August 2024
  • The Farm, an unaired spinoff of The L Word The Farm: Angola, USA, a documentary set in Angola Prison The Farm (Louis Bromfield novel), 1933 The Farm (Tom...
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    confinement for decades after being convicted in 1973 of prison murders. Initially held at Angola after being convicted of armed robbery, King served a total...
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  • 2010. Retrieved on August 16, 2010. "Rideau was sent to Louisiana's Angola Prison, where he spent a decade waiting to be executed." "Louisiana Correctional...
    35 KB (2,672 words) - 21:31, 6 August 2024
  • performance by a group of unidentified prisoners in June 1933 at the Angola Prison Farm, Louisiana, and in July 1933 at the Parchman Farm penitentiary...
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