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Angola prison 'farm line' suit becomes class action

Federal judge Brian A. Jackson certified the prison labor case as a class action in late December. A lawsuit alleges the ...
The Advocate

Prisoners in Angola's farm line must get special precautions in high heat, judge rules

A federal judge ruled Friday that officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola must again take special precautions to protect inmates who work in the prison's fields during high ...
WGNO

Louisiana inmates renew push for heat protections at Angola prison, call conditions ‘modern-day slavery’

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat protections before the upcoming summer. The ...
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‘Purposefully simulating chattel slavery’: Prisoners sue over ‘inhumane’ conditions on Angola’s brutal Farm Line

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm ...
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‘Prisons are akin to chattel slavery’: Inside the big business of prison farms and ‘agricarceral’ slave labor

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...