Louisiana deserves a correctional system that prepares people for successful re-entry, an agricultural system built on dignity rather than exploitation and a public conversation honest enough to recognize that slavery's legacy is not only in the past.
A federal judge agreed that Angola works men into the ground in unconstitutional heat. Then he said he could not make it stop. “The fields did not change,” writes Andrea Hagan. “The law that was supposed to govern them did.”
The court will determine whether forced prison field labor is unconstitutional and in violation of federal disability law
For the second consecutive year, a federal judge tells the DOC to provide Farm Line workers with protections from the sweltering Louisiana heat.
