Resource: At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be A Death Sentence
By: Katie Rose Quant and James Ridgeway
December 20, 2016
http://inthesetimes.com/features/angola-prison-healthcare-abuse-investigation.html
A 6-month investigation into Louisiana’s Angola prison, the largest maximum-security state prison in the country, reveals substandard and inhumane healthcare—leading to extremely high death rates for prisoners. Does this amount to unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment”?
http://inthesetimes.com/features/angola-prison-healthcare-abuse-investigation.html