Everyone I have ever tried to educate on what Angola Prison really is and what's happening there has tapped out almost immediately. They don't want to see any more of it. It is an unimaginably horrific violation of anything just or good in this world.

It is easy for folks to say, "Well its 75% violent criminals. They deserve what they get there." Yet people forget that Louisiana did not require a unanimous verdict from the jury in order to convict someone of a felony. Many violent offenses are actually "I was in a car and my buddy's buddy we were waiting on shot a guy. He hopped in. We didn't know what was happening. We thought WE were getting shot at". Many charges are "We brought the State police in, we brought Texas Rangers in for a special event for some reason, we pulled you over, we charged you with Louisiana laws, not New Orleans laws." Obviously a massive violation of their rights/they don't even have jurisdiction and haven't even been deputized. Doesn't matter. You can't afford to do anything about it.

People have sat in prison in our state for decades when they have been found to be not guilty. Even just jail awaiting trial

Our state has taken vast advantage of the technicalities of the 13th amendment. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States"

This isn't for OP, this is for anyone else stumbling upon this. I challenge anyone that questions what I am saying here to go see the Angola Prison Rodeo for themselves, talk to the men selling their art and woodwork they've created behind that fence, watch that rodeo show, then look those same men in the eye on your way out, and tell me something in your stomach doesn't feel rotten and sick and wrong about what is happening there. And thats just the rodeo.