#OPINION His hope is for a second chance not to live a life of leisure, but to live a life of purpose under the weight of his past, to test the rehabilitation he claims in the real world.

✍ Terrance Winn

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#TheLensNola🔍 #solomonbirdsong #angolaprison

Arrival at Angola.... O.M.G. !!

This was one of my earliest posts on my Substack 2 years ago. I break down my arrival at Angola prison where I served 47 flat calendar years. An interesting look at what getting to America's roughest prison was like.
#prison #rehab #freeatlast #AngolaPrison

Judge orders four held in new immigration unit at Angola prison to be released - Verite News New Orleans A judge found that the federal government was indefinitely holding the four men in “Camp 57,” the immigration facility at Angola also known as “Louisiana Lockup," in violation of their constitutional ...

Judge orders four held in new immigration unit at Angola prison to be released . Is this progress? Everybody has to know that Rabid Jeff Landry and Cuntsuella Murrill have to be absolutely SEETHING about this. #Louisiana #Immigration #Angolaprison

I bet you have absolutely NO CLUE what a "Potcho" is...
I invented these when I was running the VETS club in #AngolaPrison. They're REALLY good and FILLING and PERFECT for a chilly day! They were one of my best selling menu items.

Former political prisoner Gary Tyler publishes <i>Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Angola Prison</i> The autobiographical volume is both a history of a frame-up and a warning of contemporary significance.

Former #politicalprisoner #GaryTyler publishes "Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in #AngolaPrison". The autobiographical volume is both a history of a frame-up and a warning of contemporary significance. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Louisiana death row inmate released on bail after decades behind bars A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row is out on bail

Justice will prevail - Jimmie Duncan deserves his freedom. Let's keep him free!
#DeathRow #Louisiana #AngolaPrison

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Now, today he walked out of prison a free man. Let justice prevail.
#DeathRow #AngolaPrison #Louisiana #Justice #JimmieDuncan

The Last Breakfast | William Kissinger | INQUEST I kept my promise to break bread with my friend Dobie one last time, right before the state of Louisiana put him to death.

This was the first piece I had published after I was released from #Angolaprison, and that jump-started my writing career. Because #Florida is on an execution spree, I thought it was a good time to re-share it for you. Ha! Also because I just discovered it on Wikipedia!
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Angola Prison—once a slave plantation, now a detention site for immigrants. The ACLU says asylum seekers are being punished twice, violating the Double Jeopardy Clause. This is carceral cruelty wrapped in bureaucracy. #AbolishICE #AngolaIsNotJustice #AngolaPrison #ACLU #AsylumSeekers #DoubleJeopardy

ICE detainees at Angola prison in Louisiana are on hunger strike—demanding basic medical and mental healthcare. This isn’t just neglect. It’s cruelty. End detention. End the abuse.
#AbolishICE #AngolaPrison #HungerStrike #JusticeForImmigrants #HumanRights #USASucks

Katrina - When She Hit Angola - Part III These Weren't Any Candy-A$$ Girls !!

Part III of my series on the impact Hurricane #Katrina had on us doing LWOP at #AngolaPrison in #Louisiana, when 500 women invaded our men's maximum security prison.
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I did 47 flat calendars at #angolaprison. I know the system inside and out and have traveled every road one can travel. It’s time for change. I fully get it with the attention and the human rights and all - I really do - but where you been while we’ve been saying this for YEARS about our own?

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Here's another way to help. This is an important trip where I'll get to talk to America about the death penalty, about #Angolaprison, and about #JimmieDuncan, a factually innocent man languishing on Death Row. I'll be talking from the US Supreme Court. Help me make it happen!
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Redirecting...

On THE MURDER THAT NEVER HAPPENED, esteemed Southern novelist and keen sense of (IN)Justice just spoke out & published his analysis and urged #Louisiana to finally free #JimmieDuncan from #Angolaprison death row, where he has been wrongfully imprisoned for 30+ years.
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Redirecting...

John Grisham - esteemed novelist and keen analytical mind of Southern (in)justice- just spoke out and said #Jimmieduncan should be freed from #angolaprison death row, where he’s been wrongfully confined for over 30 years.

This is HUGE!

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Unraveling (IN)Justice - PART III Willing Ears - Eager Lips.....And A Widening Divide

Part III of my series on #JimmieDuncan and his wrongful conviction, where has been on #Angolaprison death row for more than 30 years. The widening divide, and the rabbit hole gets deeper in corrupt #Louisiana (in)justice.
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Unraveling (In)Justice - Part II Eager Ears - And The Wide Divide

Part II of my series on #JimmieDuncan and his wrongful conviction, where he's sat on #Angolaprison death row for more than 30 years.
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This is a month old, but it takes on even more importance now, since the esteemed novelist John Grisham just published an article calling for #JimmieDuncan to be freed after 30+ years on #Angola #Angolaprison death row.

#Deathpenalty

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"BONES" and the Dead Wagon Dying in Prison - A Journey to Point Lookout

Dying in prison is a horrible and lonely death. They're making it a little easier at #Angolaprison, where I spent 47 years.

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I will also fulfill my dream and the dreams of lifelong friends whom I left behind at #Angolaprison. It will be a week of cathartic relief for me and a chance to help #AbolishTheDeathPenalty.

Before all y’all start lecturing me about trauma, live through 25 years of trauma, then Vietnam and addiction, followed by 47 years of #AngolaPrison. Survive it. Live it. Recover. THEN, we’ll talk.

Until then, STFU.🤬

Perspectives on Death "We're All Going To Die"

New post up today! Taking a look at #AngolaPrison and #Louisiana #DeathPenalty. Racism, politics, geography play heavily. Who gets charged with death-eligible crimes, who's prosecuted, who ultimately gets punished.
#writers #writing #truecrime #Substack
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The Desperate Client - Left At The Altar How Fast Food Gets You To The Death Chamber

So, here's my latest post. It's a story of death row in #AngolaPrison, #Louisiana and its' racist history and a man without a lawyer a few days before his scheduled execution. How I filled the gap in prison.

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That guy with the "remodeling" metaphor could really develop a cult inside #AngolaPrison. You know? Is that too easy? Too nasty? Could it be the "Goldie Locks Sentense of the Century?"

After The First Day... When in Rome, Do As The Romans Do (Sometimes)

Good afternoon friends! It's FRID-YAY! So, that means it's time for my weekly post on prison life in #AngolaPrison.

New Lease On Life US Supreme Court Grants Richard Glossip New Trial

The #SCOTUS has granted Richard Glossip a new trial, finding that the prosecutors KNEW that his co-defendant LIED, and hid that fact for years. Friday, my series on #AngolaPrison continues: "When In Rome Do As The Romans Do."
#DeathPenalty #Oklahoma #SCOTUS

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Ironic how Holy Roller Mike believes in redemption....ONLY for violent Nazis, when Louisiana is home to one of the worst prisons in America and there aren't mass pardons or early release programs available at #AngolaPrison for the minorities working as slave labor