Journalist Marco Poggio writes “The court emphasized the plaintiffs had met their burden in showing that working conditions at the prison, which is known as Angola, posed a substantial risk of serious harm and possibly violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments.”

Journalist Robert Stewart writes “Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the “farm line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — including laboring outdoors in extreme heat — a federal judge presiding over a long-running suit filed by prisoners forced to work in the fields around Angola has ruled he could not force the state to fix the problem..”

Journalist Robert Stewart writes “Prison reform advocates are trying to put an end to the Louisiana State Penitentiary forcing prisoners to do agriculture work in harsh weather conditions.”

Read the story of Lloyd Gray, one of our clients and one of the many incarcerated men unconstitutionally convicted due to Louisiana's longstanding racist tactic of Jim Crow Juries.