{"id":3221,"date":"2008-06-21T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2008-06-21T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T17:02:52","slug":"jordan-flaherty-organizing-for-freedom-in-angola-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Flaherty: Organizing for Freedom in Angola Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftturn.org\/node\/1165\">1 June 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of Louisiana\u2019s prison system sits the Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former slave plantation where little has changed in the last several-hundred years. Angola has been made notorious from books and films such as <em>Dead Man Walking<\/em> and <em>The Farm: Life at Angola<\/em>, as well as its legendary bi-annual prison rodeo and <em>The Angolite<\/em>, a prisoner-written magazine published within its walls. Visitors are often overwhelmed by its size \u2013 18,000 acres that include a golf course (for use by prison staff and some guests), a radio station, and a massive farming operation that ranges from staples like soybeans and wheat to traditional Southern plantation crops like cotton.<\/p>\n<p>Recent congressional attention has again brought Angola into the media limelight. The focus this time is on the prison\u2019s practice of keeping some inmates in solitary confinement for decades, especially two of Angola\u2019s most well-known residents \u2013 Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Woodfox and Wallace are the remaining members of the Angola Three, political activists widely seen as having been interned in solitary confinement as punishment for their political activism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftturn.org\/node\/1165\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn, 1 June 2008 At the heart of Louisiana\u2019s prison system sits the Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former slave plantation where little has changed in the last several-hundred years. Angola has been made notorious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-PX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}