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The View From Inside

By Steve Hall

That's the title of David Oshinsky's book review of In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, the new memoir by Wilbert Rideau.  It appears in the New York Times Sunday Book Review of June 13.  LINK An hour?s drive northwest from Baton Rouge sits the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the United States. On the site of a former slave plantation, it currently houses close to 5,000 inmates and covers more ground, at 18,000 acres, than the island of Manhattan. Surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, its stunning physical isolation and distinctive antebellum feel have provided the backdrop for numerous feature films and documentaries, including ?Dead Man Walking,? ?Monster?s Ball? and ?The Farm...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 12, 2010 (boomark / email).