Ever wonder what it's like in prison? on Death Row? The Farm was filmed an attempt to answer these questions. This documentary portrays the struggle that 6 Angola inmates face daily-to find justice and compassion within the prison system.
Angola Prison, a former slave plantation on 18,000 acres of Louisiana farmland, is America's largest & most violent maximum-security prison. Eighty-five percent of the prisoners will die there. Over 77 percent of the inmates are African-Americans.
The six inmates the documentary profiles are a wife-killer who is dying of lung cancer, a new inmate, a young man who faces lethal injection, a rapist who after 20 years in prison gets his first chance to enter new evidence of his innocence before a parole board, a "fifer" who gives new prisoners an introduction of the place, and an elderly inmate who is becomes an ordained preacher.
Research the 6 inmates featured in the documentary. What happened to them after documentary.
Life Inside Angola
Vincent Simmons Project
The six inmates the documentary profiles are a wife-killer who is dying of lung cancer, a new inmate, a young man who faces lethal injection, a rapist who after 20 years in prison gets his first chance to enter new evidence of his innocence before a parole board, a "fifer" who gives new prisoners an introduction of the place, and an elderly inmate who is becomes an ordained preacher.
Research the 6 inmates featured in the documentary. What happened to them after documentary.
Life Inside Angola
Vincent Simmons Project
"I've done everything in prison that
I should have done as a member of society"
I should have done as a member of society"