Why Louisiana's Angola Prison Is So Dangerous

[@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

[@JohnHarvey-c1w]

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

[@Callmethebreeze902]

Was it when Burl Cain was warden?

[@Huy-G-Le]

Bs propaganda

[@HARVEY_1988]

@@Huy-G-Letough talk from a keyboard warrior. Get a life kid

[@Huy-G-Le]

1988, how about you starts working as an averages worker that doesn't owns their own company? Millions of story by now of former prisoner, especially people from the overly polices neighborhood got caught like their neighborhood is under a military occupations and the police can fires on them with immunity, they got thrown into prison, came out worst, and now they had an entire records of criminals offense, making its harder for them to be employs. And being poor, can't afford a roof got them right back in prison, and the loop of demolition of a human being loop around again.

[@HARVEY_1988]

@@Huy-G-Le I said what I said kid. How about you get ready for work tomorrow and you better not be late!

[@charleslane1086]

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

[@JohnFairchild-w3i]

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

[@subzero-ws7wt]

@@zelbongrimmage3770Why does it always gotta be a pizzing contest?

[@thefunguy5069]

@@ronikatjonesonly the Everglades in south Florida is bad especially in the winter when there’s no rain, it’s really North/Central Florida with the bad humidity

[@billsanders5067]

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

[@rurubaby615]

Because slave owners paid for the slaves they get paid for having theirs and of one or 2 happens to die they got 4 more to replace them for free then get paid for em

[@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.

[@mrjonesandme8848]

And criminals keep getting caught. Don't blame the system...blame the people that made the system necessary.

[@Willibeolder]

YOOOO! My uncle trains those dogs.

[@WileeC]

More legitimate & factual information in this comment than in the entire 4:32 of the video 👍

[@connieinthesun7881]

​@mrjonesandme8848 No! It's the system. I would suggest watching the documentary called The Thirteenth.

[@kayjay407]

​@@mrjonesandme8848I agree! However, there are inmates who have been falsely accused and wrongfully convicted. Sadly, it's very common in certain parishes.😢

[@RedStickLouisiana]

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

[@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

[@undertakerfanz628]

is The background music really nessacary 🙄

[@justblack333]

Necessary... Jesus yours was a horrible spelling.

[@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

[@ricbroc1860]

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

[@skylerortiztheboxer4910]

Lol. You mean don’t be Black in Louisiana if you don’t want to be forced into slavery.

[@baseball3106]

Lmaooo what an idiot… You do realize none of those people had a good lawyer… All are from nothing.. Prison system benefits off of every prison or incarcerated… worse human beings are in country club prisons but yet you say “don’t do the crime if you don’t like the consequences” how about “Don’t do the crime if you know you don’t have money to get you out of it……”

[@BansLeen]

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

[@brianstewart9470]

No 🧢

[@Loudfrmdavill]

😂😂😂

[@southernguru1455]

Well he's there as of now 😂

[@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.

[@BonShula]

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

[@googleuser1748]

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

[@brandonn3543]

2:30 P Diddle getting used to those bars.

[@BansLeen]

Same thing i said bro😂😂😂

[@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

[@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

[@andrewdubose9968]

Texas has a state prison museum, is that not the norm?

[@Willibeolder]

YOOOO! My grandpa worked there

[@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

[@Kbezzy225]

What school you went to

[@39simpleman]

cain is as corrupt as they come@@matthewburgess6076

[@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

[@kay1835]

People make mistakes & wrong choices some did nothing wrong & they sometimes get the wrong person I heard of plenty doing time they haven’t committed judges are racism it’s just a shame to have to be that harsh on anyone let God be the Judge not man !!!!!!!

[@karenplante2593]

Go and survive just one day. You'll sing a different tune!

[@soyfacekilla]

Still doesn’t make modern day slave labor justifiable

[@AhmadShah-oz5wu]

0:30 tradition continues

[@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❤❤

[@williamd9393]

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

[@JetSopp]

My uncle was arrested and sent here back in the mid 90s and was released 3 years ago. He was a very bright man and had everything, just got caught hanging with the wrong crowd and ended up engaging in that wrong itself. After he was released, he never was the same. His mind is not working, he’s clueless.

[@aahmonddelite690]

Is it the Prisoner or Staff that makes it dangerous?

[@tirefiregarage]

Yes.

[@jwwj30]

Both!

[@ChrisNigro-z4g]

Both

[@AwsAws-t5i]

The cracka staff members the reason it's dangerous

[@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.

[@jeromemitchelle5734]

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

[@BansLeen]

Said da same thing i said😂😂

[@jordandelahoussaye7]

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

[@dontblame2224]

You called it 2:34 he in jail now

[@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.

[@Callmethebreeze902]

Burl Cain brought in the religious environment and much of the clean up and reform when he was warden. Yes I live in south Louisiana.

[@asullivan4047]

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

[@toddk1479]

Stop committing crimes.

[@vitalityfox]

You're just ignorant

[@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.

[@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

[@justincase2291]

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

[@VeoThon1]

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

[@TheWaterboy.]

Rehabilitation should always be the goal

[@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

[@darylfields]

I got a uncle in Anglo right now he's been in their for over 50 years

[@Mosthatedblogga]

Dam is that P. Diddy? 😂

[@mariocervantes5450]

Diddy @ 2:30 is crazy work

[@mesquitoful]

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

[@sufferh3ad]

0:05 Did this man just say WOLD-DOG HYBRIDS?!???!

[@AlmostReady504]

"Wolfdog hybrids" Beware the loup-garou

[@torreyvent9429]

Dogs can't cross with people. No werewolf.

[@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.

[@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.

[@MrChaoticCrazed]

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

[@jimmyllorca1428]

Wow crazy to see puffy behind bars years ago n now it actually happened nuts

[@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

[@joshuanichols1783]

We had to take a trip there as kids.... abd i can tell you that nobody in my school has ended up in prison...

[@nolalove8909]

That says everything about our current government. Sickening

[@langston3286]

@ 2:35... That aged well.

[@sirbigdawg4787]

Is that the Diddler 2:33

[@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

[@teamgreeneathletics2927]

NO JUMPER BROUGHT ME HERE 😂🤔

[@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

[@acbentertainment6265]

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

[@traviss7740]

I know a dude who is locked up in here because he relapsed at a halfway house we were at in Gonzales, took a bunch of xanax, blacked out, got into a shootout with a cop, and woke up with no memory of the incident and 25 years.

[@OreoKenObi]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@thetiredtomcat]

Just watched another video of a guy who did 66 years here!!!! He was 17 when he went in and died there

[@Mike-tu7uw]

It’s like the warden Burl Cain said” every other convict you see here there’s somebody in the ground because of them “. Those killers and rapists have a 3 meals a day and a roof over their heads. They have to work? So what?

[@mah7961]

Agreed. If you really want to see inhumane treatment and conditions in prisons look no further than shows like lock up abroad. Places in the 3rd world. Where prisons are lucky to get a bowl full of rice for one meal.

[@DustinKeating-yk3vq]

The youth offenders wasnt on the same unit eith the adults

[@vermintky]

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

[@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.

[@danb5595]

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

[@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.

[@OG213LA]

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

[@HollaIfYaHemi392]

2:33 pdiddy i knew it 😂😂😂

[@StarMoffattRealTalkRealFacts]

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

[@KENTSNEED-q7z]

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

[@christophermoore8041]

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

[@KeyunaGaines-l9s]

Who ever is responsible for making sure the keep their word and oaths to keep the prisoners out of society while upholding the law as a law enforcer. I thought being a professional was we needed nothing else.

[@ToysToolsandTales]

This video doesn't do justice to prisons in Louisiana! There are much worse places. You will never leave these places with a normal way of thinking.

[@meahdahlgren5875]

❤❤❤❤

[@Leroy-qh9wx]

@Toys ToolsandsTales; I just read your comment. I myself have been told there are worst prisons right there's in Louisiana. I couldn't believe what a friend from there told me. Let me know what you know. Take care.

[@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.

[@Void-cs7lq]

My uncle is a prisoner at Angola and he doesn’t get fed every Saturday

[@eddierendon1354]

Sentenced to Angola, it means a life sentence.

[@PhyllisBelvher]

PhyllisBelcher they need to give the older inmates an early profile and a good support group for them and let them get an early chance to better their life with family and get a chance to better them on the out side.

[@EricBynog-zd4rd]

Crazy part about this is I live in north Louisiana and there was a prison in caddo parish called Forcht Wade correctional center that had a 2 million dollar infirmary and a 1 million dollar new chapel the state housed older inmates and some programs there in 2007 a program called IMPACT a boot camp program for younger kids was there I was 32 and went thru it and it saved my life period they closed the prison down about 4 years later and recently bull dozed the whole buildings it was the old cdc jail before ccc was built they could still be using that prison for programs today but NO this state has got rid the corruption

[@dontblame2224]

2:34 look just like diddy 😂

[@Howdydoody1878]

Sounds like what a prison should do…

[@dirtyharry205]

Until you get locked up.

[@coobay4786]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@j.kelley1685]

This is where Mystikal will live the rest of his life.

[@enginethatcould5257]

Wolf dog hybrids 😂

[@stvr_child]

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

[@megalauren1592]

The Breakfast Club sent me here (Boosie Interview)

[@easymoney8254]

They put Diddy in the beginning of this.... craaazy

[@davidjones9518]

It’s a prison not a vacation resort. 😊

[@BonShula]

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

[@meahdahlgren5875]

Davidjones9518 ❤❤

[@scottnewton9619]

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

[@Moneymoney2264]

Was tht diddy👀😂

[@coreydallmeyer67]

Think so

[@GoaTrex2531]

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

[@michaelmorgan5303]

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

[@DEEJAYAIR]

Hell ..... don't go, you have options ya know

[@jw893]

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

[@davidjaerobins4180]

"Angola, the free man bout it, he don't play, Brother get outta line, ship em to Camp J" Juvenile

[@peterarmstrong6730]

Imagine the bad Karma in this place. Imagine the amount of slaves that died here when it was a Plantation. The South is like a different country when it comes to human rights especially in Prisons.

[@judynamaina575]

They don't deserve to be beaten or hurt no matter what you do. They deserve water and they need water and give them clean water and food and clean cells. Clean clothes you don't treat. Nobody like a dog on a chain no matter how rotten these guys are or done

[@LadySilence]

Not if theyve killed hurt or violated someone else. But for things such as drugs theft I agree

[@OreoKenObi]

I mean, we do have courts and laws and sentencing that determines proper/just punishment.... as a civilized society we've got to have rules even when it comes to punishment. I find myself also having zero sympathy for bad things that might happen to murderers/child abusers/etc, but I can recognize that we should aim for a penal system that focuses on rehabilitation rather than torture... and some of this stuff amounts to torture ihmo. It bothers me that it's correctional officers that are deciding on a whim to dole out torture as punishment. They need to be looked at with scrutiny. @@LadySilence

[@j2thebscottking918]

​@LadySilence EITHER WAY THATS NOT U TO JUDGE THEY DONT DESERVE TO BE TORTURED. THEY IN THERE the rest of there life

[@LadySilence]

@@j2thebscottking918 Im judging so what. 🤸‍♀️I dont have sympathy whatsoever

[@j2thebscottking918]

@LadySilence it's not they job to mistreat them. Let them do there time, and leave them alone. U don't torture no one. Like I said stop judging because u ain't perfect either, a sin is a sin. There human

[@EikeEnki]

But how come this prison is named Angola? Angola is my home country...

[@frogvision9534]

the slaves that work on the plantation where from Angola wazzam cousin

[@itsOtiyana93]

Modern slavery > actual rehabilitation

[@hb9614]

Bruh. Legit. When you can go to prison & have better healthcare than the rest of us FREE, LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS..... smh...🤦‍♀️

[@atchafalaya2835]

I'm from Louisiana. I guarantee you the people sent there deserve to be.

[@jeremychatelain1878]

Hmmmm hard to believe that a place filled with nothing but criminals of every kind would be dangerous