‘The Wildest Show in the South’: Spectacle and Suffering at America’s Biggest Prison

ANGOLA, La. – On a blistering fall afternoon, even by Louisiana’s standards, mainly Black incarcerated people cling tightly to bucking horses. They run from barreling bulls and get tossed around like rag dolls in events that are outlawed in rodeos across the country – but not here at the “wildest show in the South.”

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