The fourth side is shaped against the Tunica Hills, a dense woodland area with hills and gullies. Rattle-snakes, water moccasins, copperheads and an occasional bear inhabit the hills. These conditions should give all of the 5,000 inmates second thoughts about an escape, though some still try. If the river or the hills don't contain them, the prison's well-drilled dogs and tactical team almost certainly will. As far back as the 1940s and '50s, inmates toiled on The Farm under the watchful eyes of a few sadistic supervisors.
Inmates still work the property today.
The conditions aren't as harsh, but inmates can earn between 4 and 20 cents per hour. In addition, inmates once manned a dairy farm on Angola. Although it has been shut down, some of the cows remain and can be seen lying under the blazing and muggy Louisiana skies, listlessly grazing on the grass. Various camps are located on the site. There's Camp F, which houses inmates known as trusties.