Why Louisiana's Angola Prison Is So Dangerous

Men work in the fields in the sweltering Louisiana heat, watched over by armed guards and wolf-dog hybrids. This is the biggest maximum-security prison in the United States — and one of the most dangerous.

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Voiceover by: Jarman Day

[GrungeHQ]

How do you feel about the treatment of these prisoners?

[billsanders]

Southern slave owners had an invested economic interest in keeping their slaves somewhat healthy. The Louisana Department of Corrections does not.

[undertakerfanz]

is The background music really nessacary 🙄

[Goku-pzhg]

Is that 2:33 p diddy” I know when I first saw it was him at the beginning 😂 crazy 😮.

[JohnHarvey-cw]

I know a man who served 25 years here came out with a education and a different out look now is a successful business man yeah he was young when he went in

[RedStickHistorian]

The lesson here is to behave yourself in Louisiana.

[kk]

Okay time for a bit of clarification. Yes Angola is a harsh, horrible, and heinous place, however, there is exactly one hybrid wolf dog and it is not used to guard prisoners. It is a failed experiment not fit for purpose and is kept well away from prisoners. The dogs on site are Malinois, German Sheperd, and Bloodhound. The fields the prisoners work in are vegetable crops used to feed inmates. There is a processing plant on the grounds where the veg are washed, processed, and flash frozen. There is not a metal can or can opener on the premises. When it was a plantation the predominate crop was cotton, no cotton is grown there today.
Angola is also the largest prison in the United States. It encompasses 18, 000 acres bordered by the Mississippi River on three sides and the Tunica Hills on the fourth, which are full of every kind of stinging or biting bug one can imagine and then there are the snakes, Ground Rattlers are most common with Moccasins (pit vipers) thrown in for glee. It is also the only prison in the world without a perimeter fence.
South Louisiana is a brutal climate, especially in the summer months.It is extremely hot and very humid, making the heat index well above 95 degrees F throughout the summer into the fall months.

This is a monstrous system created by the 13th Amendment that will likely never be repealed because there is too much money involved. Private money, making the rich richer.

[dougrobertson]

If you are from Louisiana you know about Angola. Angola is not a prison it is a penitentiary. There is a big difference. Some of the Penitentiary camps are miles from each other.

[davidryanjr]

I've done the same thing in Alabama at a prison called draper in the 90s it's now shut down because of inhumane treatment imagine that

[BansLeen]

2:31 i see diddy right where he need to be🤣🤣🤣

[jeromemitchelle]

2:32 i swear that looks just like puffy p diddy😂😂😂

[JohnFairchild-wi]

The. Humidity in Louisiana is. Stiffling.

[Ayyeeeooo]

Bruh I’m casually watching this & see my childhood friend at 0:43 smh damn man we was with each other everyday grew up on the same street

[freddyfrug]

One would think that the state with the harshest sentencing guidelines and the highest incarceration rate wouldn't also have the highest murder rate year after year, but that's exactly what Louisiana has somehow experienced.

[rodneyc]

Some of the guards are worst than the prisoners.

[boomshanka]

I am reading many comments that say it isnt supposed to be a holiday camp and "dont do the crime if you cant do the time", but consider this - as infamously inhumane as a Angola is, not one of those convicts were dissuaded from the criminal act they did because they feared doing time there. Desperate people will do desperate things.

[TheBayouBabe]

Yet my school took us there for a field trip. They actually take them every year.😅 We got to walk through the quarters and everything.

[asullivan]

Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.😉.

[ricbroc]

Don't do the crime if you don't like the consequences.

[lmcoopie]

My parents taught me to try to stay out of prison and I find it easy to do.