"I can't change what happened here"
Angola
Angola July 1934
Alan Lomax, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Louisiana State Penitentiary entrance 2007
kccornell from Lafayette, LA, CC BY 2.0
Picking cotton at Angola prison c. 1900
Andrew David Lytle Sr., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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