Terrance Winn, a 52-year-old Shreveport resident said his experience doing forced agriculture labor at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola haunts him to this day.
“Everyone who has done that much time, that went through the things that we went through, and saw the things that we went through now, we need, we need professional help. It’s no joke,” Winn said. He runs and participates in a support group that he says helps formerly incarcerated individuals cope with the trauma of their prison experiences.
His friend Ronald Reynolds, a 52-year old Alexandria resident who was also imprisoned at Angola and forced to do agricultural work feels similarly. According to Reynolds, subconscious echoes of what’s known as the “farm line,” agricultural work done in groups in the fields at the prison, come rushing back to him when he’s performing basic outdoor landscaping work at his house…