Comments on: Torture at Angola Prison

By: Bigben

Bigben — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:44:14 +0000

The state has the ultimate power over mens’ lives and never should the state, its agencies or agents, lower its professional standard by acting in an uncivilized and willfully brutal manner for the purpose of terrorization. Penalties can be stiff but not administered with the premeditated intent to purposely terrorize inmates. The state should not be caught up in randomly attacking inmates in order to set an example. Such conduct only makes convicts who were not hostile become so, and men who were not desparate, even moreso.

By: Nicole Wilson

Nicole Wilson — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:15:03 +0000

No one is perfect… The little things one can do is panic or lose control in the mist of situations and there for are called a Beast… I would never be leave that a prisoner just will just do something just to be doing it and the same I would say towards a guard…although The power will always be in the law hands no matter what they chose to do with it…..

By: dan e

dan e — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:15 +0000

Tina, try emailing to Mary Ratcliff at the San Francisco Bayview National Black Newspaper, she’ll know who has that info at fingertips: E-mail Address(es):
moc.weivyabfsnull@rotide

By: Tina Simmons

Tina Simmons — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:04:23 +0000

very intersting read. Do any of you know how to write an inmate in Angola Prison? I have a relative there . Don’t know how to get ahold of his family and would like to write him. I can’t seem to find an address . Can any of you help?

By: JB

JB — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:24:55 +0000

I totally agree with nursemaggy.Step into the shoes that are there.

By: NURSEMAGGY

NURSEMAGGY — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:48:13 +0000

By the way, I have had a family member in prison. Not all inmates are evil. However, these particular inmates are maximum security, lifers.
They for the most part are charming and like the guy next door, but that one day out of 10 or 60 when they decide to act up because they have no inpulse or self control. They become monsters. Not all of them, but it is more common an inmate is hiding a monster than a good soul. at least at that level of prison.

By: NURSEMAGGY

NURSEMAGGY — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:42:01 +0000

infected blood. or they throw a mixture of waste products from the human body on you. These are not Sunday school kids. These men are murders, most times multiple murders, cereal rapist, child molestors, etc. They are very selfish men who do not veiw the world the way we do. They do however know what to say and do to get sympathy. to make you think they are the victom.
This young correctional officer with a family went to work that night to keep your family safe. He lost his life to protect you from these terrible men. A family lost a husband, father, son. These six inmates were in the room with this man covered in his blood, they beat him to death with a hammer because he would not give them the keys so they could get to you. You they would have killed for a car and a few bucks to get away. Why? Because you don’t matter to them. You are in the way of what they want. They only care for themselves. Do you think for one minute that you felt sorry for them and helped them. NO, they only care that they get what they want.
I always treated my inmates with the respect they allowed. Meaning that if they were being respectful to me as a woman and not showing me thier private parts or cursing me. Then I had a good morning for them and a never spoke ill to them. However, on the days they threatened to come to kill me I would let them know in a minute if they ever came to my home they would leave in a body bag.
I had inmates I liked, I did not have inmates I trusted.
These men in administrative segregation do not have anything to do all day but to think, to plot, to plan.
When I was hired I had to sign a no hostage statement. It said I know they will not negotiate for me if I am taken hostage. I was tought what to do in that situation. If you want to know real inmates. Talk to persons who have been held hostage by these men. Prisons across the country have had this happen.
You want to know where these abuse claims are made?
Inside the inmates plotting brains. These are the things they will do to others. They think we are all too stupid to know the difference, they think everyone is as deciptful as they are.
For all of you people cring over the poor poor inmates, I have a challenge for you. WORK THERE! Work there or shut up!

By: John F Gates

John F Gates — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:31:15 +0000

You guys in this site must be out of date, the old person in charge has been long gone. These stories happened many years ago, some not even true. But anyways it was aired this week, angola prison inmates (All Angola Prison inmates) except for those who refused to be on tv. A big, really big change. Most of the inmates in Angola prison are God believing. Happy it seems hard to believe until you see the documented video released. Also several church ministries were there. Earlier this year, MBM teamed up with TBN to tape a TV Prison Chapel. He was joined by evangelist and author Kenneth Copeland,special in the Main Larry Huch, pastor of New Beginnings Church in Dallas, movie star/rapper Tiny Lister and Vince Russo, a former World Wrestling Federation executive, to share the message of Jesus Christ with the inmate population. It was an amazing communion for all. Dont stay stuck in history, people do want updates and changes in life.

By: sk

sk — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:46:03 +0000

I saw an electric chair on a billboard near Houston a few weeks ago. It was an advertisement for the Texas Prison Museum:

The Museum's prize possession is Old Sparky, an electric chair that fried 361 prisoners between 1924 and 1964. It was made by prison workers, rescued from a prison dump, and is now displayed in a replica Death Chamber...Helping us to understand this is Jim Willett, the former warden of "The Walls" prison, one of the six in Huntsville. Willett, who looks like Dick Cheney, oversaw 89 executions...In former years Texas prisons would reduce their overcrowding, and make a tidy profit, by leasing convicts to private industry. Prisoners were not happy with this arrangement and would sometimes cut off their fingers, hands, and feet—and even blind themselves—to avoid working in the lease camps, where they were often punished with whippings from something called the "bat"—also on display.

The warden—who no longer looks like Cheney—is going to rather sleep-deprived for the next couple of weeks as he's got five executions to take care of.

By: bozh

bozh — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:59:20 +0000

US had been inching for at least two centuries towards a perfect fascism.
then, ca. a century ago, it advanced by ever larger steps and now is galloping towards an ideal fascist structure of society. thnx