num_pages: 342
description: Drawing on their award-winning reporting for the Louisiana State Penitentiary's uncensored newsmagazine, The Angolite, Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg present the stark reality of life behind bars and the human, political, and fiscal costs of our long-running war on crime.
language: English
title: Life Sentences: Chronicles of Louisiana State Prison at Angola
titlecomplete: Life Sentences: Chronicles of Louisiana State Prison at Angola
genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 47
publisher: Times Books