Angola Prison Hospice: Opening the Door

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/multimedia/angola_20080912

Half of the 5,000 inmates at the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are serving life sentences, and it is estimated that 85 percent of them will grow old and die there. Edgar Barens's documentary examines one of the nation's first prison-based hospice programs, a program that notably incorporates inmate volunteers into the care of other dying inmates.

Angola Prison Hospice: Opening the Door was produced by two former OSI programs, the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture and the Prioject on Death in America.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Angola Prison Hospice
• Louisiana
• prison
• criminal justice
• justice
• Open Society Foundations
• film
• documentary

[smangum1000]

What a wonderful way to help nuture the good within people in a place that rarely rewards such. I imagine this program has far reaching positive effects rippling out. I love to see problems resolved (dying inmates) by looking for strength within (willing, caring inmates).

[HipHopGraffitect1]

Fuck the prison system. Legal slavery! Historically exploitive and racist. Prison: big business in Amerikkka.

[pagophagia]

What a great way for everyone involved to gain something when everything seems lost.

[lozkina]

god at work, or good at work , take your chioce