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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Louisiana State Penitentiary"”.
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A Faith-based Program Evaluation: Moral Development Of Seminary Students At The Louisiana State Penitentiary
… an outcomes-based program evaluation for the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) campus of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The study included one primary research question, with two subquestions. The primary research question asked to what extent students in the program …
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Legal Exoneration: A Case Study through the Life History of John Thompson
… In 2003, after eighteen years in Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, fourteen on death row, JT was exonerated. Exoneration theoretically removes the official stigma of conviction and restores full civil rights on former prisoners such as JT. Yet ―exonerees‖ face all the social, …
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Organizing for Freedom: The Angola Special Civics Project, 1987-1992
… nation’s largest maximum-security prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly referred to as Angola, founded the Angola Special Civics Project to collectively organize for prison reform. Using a combination of oral history and archival research, this thesis argues that the Angola Special …
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"To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest" -- Words, Walls, and the Rhetorical Practices of the Angolite
… news magazine published and edited by inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary. While The Angolite and the efforts of former editor Wilbert Rideau have been discussed in the public media, especially here in Louisiana, my dissertation is the first extended scholarly account of this prison …
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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film
… four prison sites and documentaries about them: Louisiana State Penitentiary (more commonly referred to as Angola), Attica Correctional Facility, Guantánamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib. </p> <p>Across each site, I trace how a set of dialectical tensions organize their visual fields: inside/outside, …