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Solitary confinement abuse sparks hunger strike in Louisiana’s Angola Prison
By Gloria Rubac posted on March 3, 2021
Angola State Prison was the 18,000-acre Angola Plantation before the Civil War, named after the African country from which many of the enslaved people in Louisiana were kidnapped. The plantation was worked then by enslaved Africans and now by imprisoned workers of African descent.
Incarcerated workers in Louisiana’s notorious Angola Prison began a hunger strike early Feb. 17. The reason: Prison officials refused to release them back into the prison population after they served their sentence in solitary for a rule infraction.
According to The Lens, an independent nonprofit news outlet for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the hunger strikers reported that in segregation, they are kept in their cells for over 23 hours a day and are only let out to shower. But even that hour, some said, has no guarantee.
On February 13, men being held in one of the solitary confinement wards at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola were discussing how to get out from under their miserably austere physical conditions. These included broken lights in their cells, no underwear, a single blanket and inadequate heating in record cold temperatures for northern Louisiana. The men also experienced brutal psychological conditions, including no time outside in the yard at all and only limited time out in the hall where they may or may not be lucky enough to make it into the shower in the 15 minutes allotted to them.
Theyâd been isolated, under-stimulated, living in semi-darkness. They were at the end of their emotional tether. They rejected the only available official route for individuals to resolve grievances within the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LADOC), the Administrative Remedy Procedure, because while officially it can take up to 90 days for a determination, practically it often takes
Thousands of criminal cases on COVID hold as victims, defendants await justice
Neither the defendants who sit in jail nor the victims who await justice are being served by the pandemic-induced wait for a trial. Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 10:25 PM CST February 17, 2021 Updated: 10:50 PM CST February 17, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Bob Arthur hasn’t been waiting passively for justice in the four years since his 40-year-old son, Shawn, turned up dead in his Metairie apartment.
Bob Arthur hired private investigators and worked with a Huffington Post reporter for more than a year to gather evidence that finally convinced the Jefferson Parish coroner and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office that Shawn’s death wasn’t an accident.
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