Please, do not send cash. Angola Rodeo 22 oz. The 18,000 acres of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola stretch along the Mississippi River, revealing landscapes of breathtaking beauty and fertile farmland. Yet for the five thousand men who enter the gates for the first time as young men, never to leave again, it is a place of infamy, a land of suffering, of shattered lives and discarded souls. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Angola was a thriving slave plantation.
Critics say little has changed.
This remarkable program chronicles a year inside Angola, from harvest to harvest. It is a tale of life and death without hope, but the characters and the day to day life are often surprising, with death row banquets, guards who raise their families on the grounds, and annual rodeos for entertainment. The Farm is also the home of nationally acclaimed prison print and video journalist, Wilbert Rideau. Directed by Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack. Co-directed by Wilbert Rideau.