One Acadiana Pilot Program Helping Incarcerated Earn Construction Training

One Acadiana pilot program helping incarcerated earn construction training

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) - Using funds received from a grant, One Acadiana has partnered with the Master's Guild Association and the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office to host a 10-hour 'Intro to Construction' work ready training for incarcerated individuals at the re-entry center. "We were able to make sure it happened, which proved the point that we can all work together and get these short-term programs working in the facility," said Dr. Maggi Bi…

'Purposefully simulating chattel slavery': Prisoners sue over 'inhumane' conditions on Angola's brutal Farm Line

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm under “inhumane” and dangerous conditions, including extreme heat. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Samantha Pourciau, senior staff attorney at The Promise of Justice Initiative, about the slave-like conditions of pri…

Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money

As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so jaundiced he appeared to glow in the dark.