Because if I were in his shoes, I would be jealous. Judge Pittman became frustrated when Pearson, who attended virtually using Zoom, had difficulty relaying his understanding of his new sentence, and it overwhelmed him.
On the drive to the Parole Project office in Baton Rouge, the car begins to beep. At the office, reentry specialist Lloyd Jarrow handed him a cell phone. Jarrow, who received parole in after serving 25 years in prison, told him everyone struggles with learning how to use a cell phone after they leave a lengthy stay in a lockup.
Over the next several weeks, Pearson will take reentry classes to learn how to call, text and use apps like Facebook. He has his own bedroom and private bathroom. On the night of his release, Hundley and Jarrow showed him his private bedroom and a stocked kitchen pantry. Pearson looked around his new space and smiled, revealing a wide gap in his front teeth.
Hundley said he has a list of people that he feels obligated to help get released. Pearson was one of them. Search Query Show Search. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Since , the prison had held a professional rodeo to entertain its inmates, employees, and the general public.
Inmates participated in all but one of the events. A portion of the proceeds went toward the Louisiana State Penitentiary Inmate Welfare Fund, which paid for inmate educational and recreational supplies. One could call Angola a company town. Anyone who worked at the prison lived in one of the hundreds of homes on prison property.
Other inmates who demonstrated good conduct worked in the fields. The prison and its employees were part of a tight-knit community, one that Sullivan would find difficult to pry open for leads. Download this case as a PDF. Biographies Laura Sullivan Steven Drummond. A prisoner in his blanket sleeps inside a punishment cell at Angola prison. Inmates who misbehave in the main prison are sent to the punishment wing where conditions are tougher.
They are kept inside their cells for 23 hours a day and, during the summer, the stifling southern temperature reaches over degrees as there is no air-conditioning. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Lloyd "Bones" Bone has been a prisoner in Angola since Bone was convicted for life with no parole for murdering another man in a knife fight in Bone drives the prison horse-drawn hearse, which transports dead inmates over 40 a year to the prison graveyard.
A prisoner who has tends the prison cemetery stands by a freshly dug grave. They are buried here. Headstones in the Angola prison graveyard. Guard tower above the East Yard in Angola Prison.
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