Through steel mesh. Louisianas highway 66. Its beautiful countryside is not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they will most likely die. That road ends here. The Louisiana State penitentiary, former plantation the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. Most people call it angola, named after the african country owned by the slaves. Now it is confining about 5,500 men. Today im heading into ground zero of mass incarceration. Theres certainly a heightened awareness as i walkthrough here with no guards. For the next couple of days, i will be staying here, exploring key issues of the Prison Reform debate. Juveniles sentenced to life without parole. We were children when we got incarcerated. The lasting effect of the war on drugs. Sentence was 150 years. Power of rehabilitation. You know that you have done something. Your life is worthwhile. And the demand by many for punishment. Personally i think hes where he needs to be. I will also be staying in a cell. Not to play prison
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Floyd Allen Dalton, Jr., 51 (Courtesy: MCSO)
Anderson County, TN (WOKI) A suspect is in custody following a multi-county police chase which ended in gunfire.
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The quilting came later in life, after he and and his family, known as the “Dalton Gang,” had made a name for themselves in drag racing, even building their own engines at Dalton Automotive in Princeton and setting records on the 1/8 and quarter-mile drag strips.