A clear-eyed and sobering glimpse of life behind the many razor-wired walls of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the largest and once the most dangerous penal institution in the U.S. Documentarians Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus spent a year profiling six of
Angola's 5,000 predominantly African-American inmates, each convicted of a violent crime: Twenty-two-year-old George Crawford, sentenced to life for murder; Vincent Simmons, serving 100 years for rape; Ashanti Witherspoon, 25 years into his 75-year sentence for shooting a cop; Logan "Bones"
Theriot, another lifer who murdered his wife and is now dying of lung cancer; Eugene "Bishop" Tannehill, an elde...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins