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From Wilbert Rideau, the prize-winning reporter who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons operating against amazing chances to receive herself, the tale of the remarkable life: a transgression, its consequence, and supreme triumph.After eliminating a lady in a minute of stress adhering to a botched bank robbery, Rideau, denied a reasonable trial, was incorrectly sentenced to death in the age of nineteen. After greater than a decade on death-row, his word was reversed alive imprisonment, and he registered the prisoner population of the notorious Angola penitentiary. Quickly Rideau became publisher of the prison newsmagazine The Angolite, which under his leadership became an uncensored, bold, and crusading diary crucial in changing the chaotic prison and the damaged La justice system.With exactly the same incisive sense for depth that introduced Rideau excellent critical praise, here he brings to vibrant life the planet of the prison through the ability of his pencil. We observe Angola’s distinctive tradition, covering not just rivalries, sexual slavery, spirit, and everyday, ingrained bigotry -killing injustices but additionally acts of decency and bravery by owner and stored likewise.