Angola

I am preparing for my trip this week to Angola State Prison in Louisiana. Angola sits on 18,000 acres in rural LA and is known as "The Farm." It is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. It currently houses over 5000 inmates, 3500 of whom are doing life sentences. Once the bloodiest and most deadly prison in the country, now it is one of the safest. They raise their own crops, cattle, fish and make many other products and services... 120 free world volunteers will spend the weekend there, and the inmates will teach us. I will spend Friday night and Saturday night in the “Old Death Row Cell Block D” and actually sleep in a single death row cell. This should be an enlightening and life changing experience. Stay tuned...