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Angola is an 18,000 acre former slavebreeding plantation with an annual operating budget of $105,000,000. Today: 5,439 male prisoners, 78% black. 88% of the population will die while incarcerated there. Point Lookout is the cemetery on Angola and has been full since 1995. Point Lookout II opened across the road with 700 new graves. LSP is the largest employer in West Feliciana Parish, providing more jobs than the nuclear power plant and paper mill combined. A new $10,000,000 Death Row facility was completed in April 2007. The 11,300 seat arena which houses the annual Angola Prison Rodeo was completed in 2002, with prison labor. 28,987 Religious Materials, and 8,424 Bibles were distributed prison wide in 2005. Approximately 400 religious services and programs are offered each month throughout LSP. Labor is mandatory for all able bodied prisoners. Primary crops inlcude, corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat. Sustaining crops: tomatoes, cabbage, okra, watermelon, onions, beans, and peppers. There is a 1,500 cattle beef herd, which is sold to the open market through Prison Enterprises. Prison Enterprises also manages the for profit license tag shop, metal fabrication facility, mattress, broom and mop factories housed on Angola. Every physically able prisoner is required to work for 2 - 20 cents an hour a minimum of 40 hours a week. The Brent Miller rifle range was recently renovated and provides employees of Angola with training in firearms, tactical response, chemical agents, electronic capture shields, and restraints. Angola Website.

- Angola is an 18,000 acre former slave-breeding plantation with an annual operating budget of $105,000,000.
- It was officially established as the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1901.
- Primary crops: corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat.
- Sustaining crops: tomatoes, cabbage, okra, watermelon, onions, beans, and peppers.
- There is a 1,500 cattle beef herd, which is sold for profit, to the open market through Prison Enterprises.
- Prison Enterprises also manages the for profit license tag shop, metal fabrication facility, mattress, broom and mop factories housed on Angola.
- Every physically able prisoner is required to work for 2- 20 cents an hour a minimum of 40 hours a week.
- LSP is the largest employer in West Feliciana Parish, providing more jobs than the nuclear power plant and paper mill combined.
-It costs an averge of $45,000 a year to imprison someone in Rhode Island versus about $13,000 spent in Louisiana.
- A new $10,000,000 Death Row facility was completed in April 2007.
- The 11,300 seat arena which houses the annual Angola Prison Rodeo, was completed in 2002, with prison labor.
- 2 New Chapels have been built on Angola in the last 2 years with profit from the Angola Rodeo and prison labor.
- 28,987 Religious Materials, and 8,424 Bibles were distributed in 2005.
- Approximately 400 religious services and programs are offered each month throughout LSP.
- Brent Miller rifle range was recently renovated and provides employees of Angola with training in firearms, tactical response, chemical agents, electronic capture shields, and restraints.(Brent Miller is the prison guard Herman and Albert are accused of killing)
- Prison View Golf Course, is open to the public inside Angola. 24 hour reservations are required and tee off is $20 (including cart rental).
- The United States represents 4.6 percent of the world's population, but houses nearly 23 percent of humanity's prison population.
- In 2008, over 2.3 million (1 out of every 100) Americans are currently behind bars in the United States. This represents the highest per capita incarceration rate in the history of the world.
- Some ethnicities have higher rates,1 out of every 36 Latinos and 1 out of every 15 black adults is behind bars.
- The United States has approx. 500,000 more prisoners than China.
- Blacks represent about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but 48 percent of the prison population.
- In 2006, Incarceration rates for white males between ages 25-29; 1,685 per 100,000. For Black males ages 25-29; 12,603 per 100,000.
- Incarceration rates for Black males in the US today are nearly 6-times greater than in South Africa under apartheid. (US 4,919 per 100,000; South Africa (1993), 851 per 100,000).
- Records show black Americans represent just 13 percent of drug users, but 38 percent of those arrested for drug crimes, and 59 percent of those convicted.
- When convicted of the same drug felony, blacks are about 50 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison than whites.
- A white man's chances of spending some time in prison over the course of his life is 5.9%. For black men, the odds are 32.2%, nearly one in three.
- One out of every 17 African-American adult males has been incarcerated.
- Slavery has NOT been abolished in the United States. Section 1) of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
- Inmates working at UNICOR (the federal prison industry corporation) make recycled furniture and work 40 hours a week for about $40 per month.
- One of the fastest growing sectors of the prison industrial complex is private corrections companies. Investment firm Smith Barney is a part owner of a prison in Florida. American Express and General Electric have invested in private prison construction in Oklahoma and Tennessee. Correctional Corporation Of America, one of the largest private prison owners, already operates internationally, with more than 48 facilities in 11 states, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- Most of the incarcerated population in the US is poor people who commit nonviolent crimes often out of economic need. Violence occurs in less than 14% of all reported crime, injuries occur in just 3% and violent crime only constitutes about 4.6% of all arrests.
- In California, the top three charges for those entering prison are: possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for sale, and robbery. Violent crimes like murder, rape, manslaughter and kidnapping don't even make the top ten.
- The state of California now spends more on prisons than on higher education, and over the past decade has built 19 prisons and only one university branch.

Reference: www.corrections.state.la.us/LSP
Bureau of Justice and US Statistics: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim04.htm
Prison Policy Initiative: www.prisonpolicy.org
The Sentencing Project: www.sentencingproject.org

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