History
Angola Three
Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace, known as the Angola Three, survived over four decades of solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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History
Convict Leasing
Convict leasing was a system of penal labor instituted in the American South after the emancipation of slaves by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865, involving the leasing out of prisoners to private companies.
Government, Politics & Law
Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola
Founded in the early nineteenth century during a time of radical penal reformation, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is one of the nation's largest prisons.
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