i had so many thoughts leading up to this assignment as to what it was gonna be like. trying to imagine going down this road, knowing it s a one-way trap. there s this moment when you get this last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steal match. louisiana s highway 66. it s a beautiful countryside. it s undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they ll most likely die. but road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary. a former plantation the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola, named after the african country that was home to the slaves who once worked these very fields. now, angela is the largest maximum security prison in the country, where today, i ll be housed with about 5500 men. i m heading into ground zero of mass incarceration. there s certainly a heightened awareness as i walk through here. no guards. for the next couple days, i ll be staying here, explain key issues of the pri
$6250 for each of his 28 years behind bars. from 2016 to 2020, 374 people wrongfully convicted of murder, 61% african-americans, have reunited with their families together they spent over 6000 years in prison. years. years they will never get back. that s all for this edition of dateline. i am craig melvin. thank you for watching. i am craig melvin and this is dateline. leading up to this assign what it was going to be like. i had so many thoughts leading to this assignment as to what it would be like. trying to imagine going down isoad, knowing it s a one- way trip. this moment where you get your last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steelman mesh. louisiana highway 66. it s beautiful countryside and undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they will most likely die. that road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary, a former plantation. the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola named
defines mass incarceration, it s louisiana. known for decades as the prison capital of the world. in 2019, the state s governor john bell edwards says that tough on crime approach hasn t been working. let s talk about mass incarceration. i suppose there was a time that that was a good thing, we re locking up all the bad guys. i don t know if it was ever a good thing, but we know now because of our experience that it was counterproductive. we had the highest incarceration rate in the nation for the last couple of decades but our crime rate wasn t any better for it. the recidivism rate wasn t any better. most importantly we weren t safer. it was costing $700 million a year, just that louisiana. that s third only to education and health care. we couldn t afford it. in 2017, edwards, a democrat in the deep south, signed bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation, the most
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sundays were made for football on xfinity. that s simple, easy, awesome. add the sports entertainment package for nfl redzone. click, call, or visit a store today to learn more. if there s one state that defines mass incarceration, it s louisiana. known for decades as the prison capital of the world, the state guess east governor says that tough on crime approach hasn t been work iing. let s talk about mass incarceration. i suppose there was a time that that was a good thing. locking up all the bad guys. i don t know if it was aftergood thing, but it was counterproductive. we have the highest incarceration rate in the nation for the last couple decades, but the crime rate wasn t better for it. but the bottom line is most