Angola Prison is also home to the country's only inmate-operated radio station.

"Krystall says she's at Angola Prison in Louisiana."

In the 1960s, he turned to drugs, and in 1970 served a brief sentence in Angola Prison for possession.

We follow Joe de Rocher through the corridors and anterooms of Angola Prison as failed legal appeals and the machinery of execution take him gradually to his death.

The state acquired the merged plantations under the name Angola in 1901 and they form the core of the Angola Prison.

What had begun as a simple task of writing letters to someone on death row in Louisiana's infamous Angola Prison became a friendship with a murderer.

In 1981 Miller set up a studio in a narrow hallway of Death Row at Angola Prison and produced a series of formal portraits of the inmates.

Or he could visit Angola Prison to see his brother today rather than Sunday.

It is rodeo day in Angola Prison, and the wild bull he has drawn even smells mean, a trembling 2,000-pound mass of muscle, hooves and horns.

Years of less-than-qualified wardens and prisoner and correctional officer deaths and beatings gave Angola Prison a reputation of brutality and injustice.