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.
#Prison #Louisiana #UnitedStates
Voiceover by: Jarman Day
Read Full Article: www.grunge.com/1396809/why-lo...

[@GrungeHQ]

How do you feel about the treatment of these prisoners?

[@tobiojo6469]

This is so horrible and inhumane, the best way to avoid going to prison is by not getting into trouble with the police.

[@Chattingwithsam]

@@tobiojo6469that’s not true! There are folks in prison that haven’t gotten in trouble with the police! I’m certain you know this.

[@LBowen-wg5rn]

​@@Chattingwithsamamen. Not everyone belongs there.

[@Mike-tu7uw]

@@LBowen-wg5rn😂😂

[@jimmyjohnson437]

Alot more humane than other countries

[@justincase2291]

Damn! Dangerous felons not being treating well. Breaks my heart to think they are treated like they treated their victims.

[@kk33613]

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 This is a monstrous system created by the 13th Amendment that will likely never be repealed because there is too much money involved.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

[@ricbroc1860]

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

[@VeoThon1]

“The facility houses violent criminals but we should make it for comfy for them”

[@TXMEDRGR]

The lesson here is to behave yourself in Louisiana.

[@laurisphelps6642]

Or, hear me out, we actually focus on rehabilitation and not JUST punishment?

[@vitalityfox]

How about I just not go there

[@clockspacefilms3025]

@@vitalityfoxexactly. Why would anyone wants to live here lol

[@richporter8828]

Too much racist heritage in the south for my pleasure.

[@lutherthompson2642]

​@@clockspacefilms3025Louisiana is a good place in most parts,, but some areas hell no,, new Orleans, Bastrop, Shreveport,, parts of monroe ect ect,, I live in north Louisiana close to ruston,, a pretty safe area,, drugs are getting worse here like everywhere in the usa,, but your ass goes to jail here unlike some states lol,, the incomes are lower but also the cost of living is lower in most of Louisiana ,, so it works out even

[@user-cm8bi8cn3m]

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

[@williamd9393]

Poor old bad boys. Angola is not there to be a Sunday School.

[@Howdydoody1878]

Sounds like what a prison should do…

[@user-jl7wn5nn7p]

The. Humidity in Louisiana is. Stiffling.

[@ronikatjones]

I take it you neva been tuh South Florida 🧿

[@zelbongrimmage3770]

​@@ronikatjonesor North Florida during the summer

[@ryanbrooks4020]

​@@ronikatjoneslived both places and Louisiana os much worse

[@buddynewman8949]

everyone cries about harsh treatment of these prisoners, take a look at the things they have done to others if you want to think about harsh

[@legalgreenmusic7860]

Yea they didn't get there by selling lemonade

[@googleuser1748]

If you cannot do the time, do not commit the crime.

[@BabyandLittleGuy]

I think you could have looked more thoroughly into this prison. Approximately 1,500-2,000 prisoners attend church regularly there. A special prison ministry featuring the work of Henry Blackaby has worked miracles there. Many prisoners have gotten an education there while opening their hearts to God. This video does not mention it this success there. Pity.

[@freddyfrug3940]

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.

[@Wurkie]

U would think ppl would be scared to commit violent crimes

[@ba1100string]

Preach preacher

[@transvestosaurus878]

Turns out harsh sentences, high incarceration rates and cruel and unusual punishments don't have an effect on the reasons that people commit crimes.

[@Reaper12349]

​@@transvestosaurus878 Google El Salvador.

[@silentking5559]

Definitely the worst state I'd say

[@brandonn3543]

2:30 P Diddle getting used to those bars.

[@user-hx4nh2pj6y]

Same thing i said bro😂😂😂

[@charleslane1086]

Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time.

[@jw893]

65% are serving life sentences? Sounds like most are violent and a danger to each other and guards.

[@undertakerfanz628]

is The background music really nessacary 🙄

[@justblack333]

Necessary... Jesus yours was a horrible spelling.

[@AlmostReady504]

"Wolfdog hybrids" Beware the loup-garou

[@baliyae]

Why is there a museum there? It’s a prison.

[@janetjenkins2674]

before it was a state pen it was a working plantation

[@dougrobertson8812]

Because it is a very historical place.

[@jamesbrantley8105]

It was one of the first slave plantations

[@davidryanjr1414]

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

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.😉.

[@michaelmorgan5303]

If you don't like the accommodation, don't do the crime.

[@FallonFontaine]

We took field trips here as kids lol

[@matthewburgess6076]

Did u get to see camp j? Cool u got to see angola Warden cain seems cool to inmates in shows ive seen

[@Truckerkaige]

What school you went to

[@39simpleman]

cain is as corrupt as they come@@matthewburgess6076

[@user-hx4nh2pj6y]

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

[@brianstewart9470]

No 🧢

[@BonShula]

"It is a prison not a vacation resort" 🤓🍔🍟🍕

[@thomasryan2679]

I was sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana. It was more than hot, it was suffocating. No judge was protecting our rights.

[@midwestlee-iw8nl]

me too , after a week we got transfer to fort leonard wood , mo. very happy . horrible food and really humid .

[@paulbrungardt9823]

What did you do to someone else to get there ?

[@JoeBoat0T]

@@paulbrungardt9823 how much would it matter tho? Everyone’s a person that has feelings and rights, even the worst of the worst. We gotta realize that if we wanna get better as a society

[@paulbrungardt9823]

@@JoeBoat0T A person has to pay for his crimes. We will get better as a society when the criminals know there is a swift, certain & severe consequence for crime.

[@TheBassLyfe32]

I didn’t know Ft. Polk had a prison I lived on the army base

[@boomshanka8743]

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.

[@billsanders5067]

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

[@nolalove8909]

That says everything about our current government. Sickening

[@bobjacobson858]

I've never been to the museum (or the prison!), but I've explored the Tunica Hills along highway 66. I might visit the museum if I get back to that area.

[@bodyloverz30]

Burl Cain is no longer warden, thus it is a dangerous place.

[@ryanbrooks4020]

The Warden is Tim Hooper who was brought up under Burl Cain. Angola is still the same as when he left years back. It's not dangerous as it was in the 1980s before Burl. His sin in law Seth Smith is also the Under Secretary for the Department of Corrections. So don't comment if your dumbass has no clue what your talking about and definitely if you haven't done time under any of these men.

[@acbentertainment6265]

Funny how they show a clip of P Diddy behind bars as a sample of prison lifestyle.

[@chrisbronson5341]

You treat people worse than animals , you can only expect the worse kind of out come .

[@user-jl7wn5nn7p]

Back in the 70-80 people. Got killed every week including guards

[@langston3286]

@ 2:35... That aged well.

[@jeromemitchelle5734]

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

[@user-hx4nh2pj6y]

Said da same thing i said😂😂

[@jordandelahoussaye7]

It is p diddy. Movies called monster ball it was filmed at angola

[@richardjohnson7091]

These inmates are the worst of the worst they are a danger to the public. Thank God for Angola. These inmates are not choir boys.

[@vermiciousk1]

Maybe stop coming the crimes that get tou thrown in Angola ??

[@aahmonddelite690]

Is it the Prisoner or Staff that makes it dangerous?

[@aceofspades1012]

Yes.

[@jwwj30]

Both!

[@user-ek5zj1sj7k]

Both

[@christophermoore8041]

Tell him about the gun line Boss !!!!😂🤣😂

[@michaelssali9353]

WTF??? you can't send kids to ANGOLA...

[@derekv8534]

All those “kids” were 16 and 17 year old violent offenders who were tried as adults for committing murders, rapes, car jackings, etc. They were given lengthy sentences. They were kept away from general pop. They were basicallly serving their sentences in segregation until they turned 19-20 and reclassified into the adult prison system, whereas many of them will spend decades at Angola. The juvenile prison was overcrowded and outdated, so the state decided to take the worst offenders out of that facility and send them to the maximum security former death row where they’d be safe and to keep them away from the other low level juvenile offenders. These aren’t ordinary “kids”. They are hardcore violent offenders who have been in and out of the system most of their youth. There should’ve been some context included with that segment.

[@mesquitoful]

According to the Daily Beast, Angola has been called…. A citation AND the passive voice. A twofer.

[@OreoKenObi]

But the angola prison rodeo is quite the spectacle, so at least there's that!

[@m_3ning]

My priest works at Angola, and he says he feels the safest there

[@mooeygarnet]

This place is only an hour away from where I live, the Angola Rodeo is amazing 😊

[@desertflowerz89]

Girl who cares?

[@mooeygarnet]

@@desertflowerz89 go back under your bridge, Troll 🧌 🤣

[@KirbyUltra777]

"modern day slavery is ok, as long as I get to watch a bunch of cows run around." May The Creator have mercy on your ignorant soul.

[@DarkBlueSlayer]

Fr I loved going there and I got on this small Ferris wheel and the merry go round

[@davidjones9518]

That’s why it’s called prison not vacation resort.

[@thevinyltruffle]

You go to prison AS punishment. Not FOR punishment.

[@BonShula]

Highest revisitation rate in the world. Oh say can you see

[@cindymauthe3867]

😮 I assume that you don't know, personally, nothing about it. I haven't been to prison but I have been in jail. Jail is bad, but I agree that it's not supposed to be a vacation resort and shouldn't be. That prison is no place for young people. Hardened criminals who will never have redemption, I can see if they are murderers, rapists, etc...

[@meahdahlgren5875]

Davidjones9518 ❤❤

[@meahdahlgren5875]

​@@thevinyltruffle❤❤

[@OG213LA]

Moral of the story is, don’t commit crimes so you won’t end up there.

[@scottnewton9619]

Gee, it's tough serving a life sentence when they only have themselves to blame.

[@joncosby4385]

Don't do the crime

[@kathrynelizabeth]

they are criminals. dont commit crimes if you dont want to e treated like a prisoner

[@dicklarson5253]

Yeah but what are you going to do and they make having a small dick illegal? Riddle me this Batman

[@tre_4]

ignorance

[@GoaTrex2531]

I’m pretty sure prison is supposed to be a miserable place.

[@megalauren1592]

The Breakfast Club sent me here (Boosie Interview)

[@davidjones9518]

Some get it confused not a rest home

[@JerseyLynne]

It is for some who are elderly. 100 wrongfully convicted in last 20 years, and that is only the ones who were exonerated

[@rumualdolazo4131]

Is that diddy 2:31

[@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.

[@TheFrogfeeder]

Taking it off over here boss

[@vanessastegall]

This prison needs to be on #60Daysin

[@jasonfoley6502]

nah

[@vanessastegall]

@@jasonfoley6502 what they are doing is not right.

[@jasonfoley6502]

@@vanessastegall That's harsh reality and there are prisons in the world far worse than america's

[@williampscott3539]

Former plantation 🤔

[@mah7961]

You mean farm. The whole place is a farm.

[@thesquad2253]

@@mah7961 yeah right

[@mah7961]

A plantation is another word for farm. But the prison for the most part is a farm. Even from the google maps you can see the fields.

[@RobertKinne-lh8wn]

All i have to say is. What beautiful horses. Nice

[@coobay4786]

Don't do the crime if you can't handle the time.

[@toddk1479]

Stop committing crimes.

[@vitalityfox]

You're just ignorant

[@DustinKeating-yk3vq]

The youth offenders wasnt on the same unit eith the adults

[@roydub4820]

I think ALL prisoners should have to work a daily job.

[@magiegainey5036]

This must be where they moved the Alcatraz prisoners to when it shut down.

[@davidtingley9978]

Nope. This is a Louisiana state prison. Alcatraz was either federal or California. Nobody from Alcatraz would have been sent there when the rock was shut down

[@danb5595]

The narrator sounds as if this place if packed full of great people!😂

[@dougrobertson8812]

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.

[@johannesandersson3617]

That is what prison should be hell on earth

[@transvestosaurus878]

State with the highest crime rate + worst prison in the country = prison doesn't work.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

What would you suggest

[@transvestosaurus878]

@@arthurbrumagem3844Treating the disease and not just the symptom, by fixing the things that cause people to turn to crime.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@transvestosaurus878 noble thought to be sure but in so many cases you won’t solve the problem. Most of those lifers are there because they ruined someone’s life. If you can’t control a persons emotions they will still kill in a fit of rage whether it be jealousy or some other trigger .And don’t use poverty as an excuse as I grew up poor with others as poor as I and committing felonies wasn’t on our shopping list. Granted poverty can trigger some but it’s not a catch all excuse. Hard core gang members are never going to change imo

[@lutherthompson2642]

​@@transvestosaurus878 since I live in louisiana let's face honest facts , most of that crime you speak of is in heavy black populated areas , new Orleans, Shreveport, monroe Southside, bastrop,, ruston Eastside, so how come blacks can't learn from a lesson in life,, like it's cool to go to prison., I'm white and got put in jail for drunk driving in 2015., no way in hell I'll get another one , I can only imagine what a penitentiary is like..

[@thesquad2253]

Neither does enabling criminals

[@fredflintstoner3009]

Here is the issue... You need to obey the law in Louisiana... This is a PRISON! Everyone of these CONVICTS have a VICTIM in their WAKE!

[@coobay4786]

Yep

[@user-jl7wn5nn7p]

Like wotking in s. Graveyard. Yhree miles. Down

[@VanniAkansy]

That's why I always have a shake on, everyone dies in the end rapper's singers actors, R.I.P. my fam.

[@dylansmith4582]

I work here.

[@user-fd2ch1dr3r]

No pain grain

[@DustinKeating-yk3vq]

Wolf dog hybrid man stop i been there you dont know what your talking about

[@thesquad2253]

They thinkin of Russia Lol

[@davidguzik4334]

Sounds like the best prison in USA

[@Michael-uu9nv]

My father was a guard in Angola prison he died in 1985 a tractor fell on him

[@tre_4]

damn. may he rest in peace

[@Michael-uu9nv]

@@tre_4 thanks

[@allencampbell8322]

Approved by Cool Hand Luke

[@jaym8257]

Sounds like a place that sucks.

[@bluecollarscholarmelrosepa5673]

Hello and good day to you Ladies and Gentlemen watching this video 💯💎💲 Jail and Prison is not a nice place to be....The food is Horrible.....The Extreme Violence is Everyday......And the Sex is Sometimes Volunteer and Sometimes Involuntary 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️ Worst experience of my life...Yes I did the crime and did the time in Joliet Illinois 🇺🇲 State Prison 🏆

[@tonirochelle4873]

Well my godchild was killed by someone that killed him and his girlfriend . While holding his one year old child. So as a tax payer it’s prison not a resort. Now three young children don’t have their parents. He will be arriving soon.

[@centillion1684]

March 13 2024 7:16 pm

[@khathaway414]

Angola is a prison, and prison aren't meant ne nice.

[@meahdahlgren5875]

❤❤

[@davidtingley9978]

Do you like the high recidivism rate? Because this does not lower rates of recidivism. Also, do you really believe there aren't a few innocent people there?

[@StarMoffattRealTalkRealFacts]

When serving Prison time one should NOT be subjected to inhumane, unsanitary and cruel treatment.

[@user-eg7uq3zz6m]

Most have it better there than on the streets robbing and killing

[@Mr5150Sarge]

Every October the prison at Angola hosts the last inmate rodeo in the country. Tickets are cheap at $10-15 each. Go see it if you get the chance.

[@ca9968]

So actual punishment for once...? NICE!!!

[@jeffpotipco736]

Its prison. They are there for a reason.

[@marysalerno467]

If it's that bad why commit crimes to go there?

[@Karoke77]

I blame the demographic. Why doesn't North Dakota or Wyoming have these issues? Hmmmmm - LOL

[@larryherring445]

I think we both know the reason. The elephant in the room that nobody wants to see.

[@terry_willis]

If they only make 2 cents an hour, do they take out income tax withholding from that?

[@derekv8534]

lol! They’re actually paid like $1.75 but the state takes room and board out of their check.

[@kevinhoward9593]

i wonder how the Prison faired during the thick of the Pandemic?

[@user-jl7wn5nn7p]

Death row is 120 degrees in the. Day and. Cool st nite 93 degrees

[@_meangreenjersey973]

How is this reblitating ?

[@user-eg7uq3zz6m]

If you treat them bad enough they'll think twice before committing another crime the states with day care type prisions reentry into the system is close to 80%

[@paulnguyen2227]

5 yrs minimum for one and 2 it's a Penitentiary not a jail there's a different they house the worst of the worst

[@saltrock9642]

But can rub elbows with prisoners at the Angola Prison Rodeo. Every Sunday in October.

[@charliegardner2098]

It's a proof that not a cake walk

[@Gacksburrito]

Stfu dumb bitch. Who needs proof for this

[@angelauniion34]

Say families live there

[@roshawncrawford2524]

Prospective

[@davidjones9518]

It’s a prison not a vacation resort. 😊

[@BonShula]

Highest revisitation rate in the world. Oh say can you see

[@meahdahlgren5875]

Davidjones9518 ❤❤

[@leeoliver424]

I would like to live there for awhile….

[@larryherring445]

😂