Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola)
Louisiana brings in National Guard for ICE roundups
Activists to hold protest against National Guard deployment, claiming it is “the latest escalation in an ongoing attack against our immigrant communities”
Trump turns notorious Angola prison into ICE detention facility
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the administration chose Louisiana’s infamous former slave plantation prison as a scare tactic to push migrants into “self-deporting”
Black prisoners organize for dignity in Angola, Louisiana’s modern-day plantation
Louisiana State Penitentiary is nicknamed after the former plantation site that it sits on. Those incarcerated at the prison say the practice of slavery is still alive and well
Ruchell Magee: US prisoner, political thinker, rebel, and still fighting for release after 67 years
The longest held political prisoner in the US has been punished for decades for his participation in a modern day slave rebellion
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