i'm gola louisiana it's more than five thousand men considered the most dangerous criminals in the state a locked up in this penitentiary. inside the inmate population is eighty percent black he comes mostly from louisiana's poorest neighborhoods. nine inmates out of ten is serving sentences so long that they're going to die and . they go into the fall eighteen thousand acres the largest maximum security penitentiary in the united states. in the eighteenth century angola was a slave plantation. it took its name from the origins of the slaves who came from uncle a in africa. today any incoming prisoners first assigned to hard labor in the jails. no no no pocket knives no cell phones no x.x. no weapon. five times a year ten thousand people gather at angola to watch the prison rodeo a rodeo for the prisoners inside the prison they don't started in one hundred sixty five and today it's the only rodeo allowed in a u.s. prison it's gone the while the show in the south it's all sold out. will cain is the man behind the success of the rodeo. in the last decade cain has transformed the rodeo into

like jerry most inmates serving time it on gola come from poor backgrounds and were represented by public defenders. public defenders do the best they can with what they have but sometimes it's not good enough the constitution of the state of louisiana requires our legislature to provide funding for public defenders but they don't right now the public defense in this state is funded by court costs mostly on traffic tickets. it's amazing spirit to get a fair trial if you're convicted over a felony and the only access you have to your attorney is the morning that you're going to be going to court i mean that's not. that's not that's not very good representation because we have underfunded the in the gym program. over the years i think you will find that many people like a proper defense particularly those from in the indigent population. was. terry to show was arrested for possession of marijuana but chance with racketeering . to show couldn't afford a lawyer and was sentenced to one hundred years in prison and a one million dollars fine he spent eighteen months at angola before winning his

from any image of humanity those striped shirts were abolished in the one nine hundred fifty seven gola for precisely those reasons of being excessively degraded or detains brought them back i don't think that's something that thrills the convicts though they probably won't say always around front. this is a human. this sprite something to the human. look like. nothing. now for us to see. jerry brown's favorite event is the guts and glory. the inmates have three minutes to grab a chip off the homes of a two thousand pound raging bull the winner gets three hundred dollars. even after the peaceful first but is ten where you have to get aggressive you gotta get. crazy i'm a look at him like the bill of illinois i'm just going to tell you that now i look at him like the operative. words to me and we did. so made good use they do with doesn't glory god jerry. jerry is twenty eight locked up since ninety ninety five he's serving a life sentence since he first entered the competition in two thousand. brown has become a celebrity. in a way i feel like i don't malone i feel like i'm out of place

and gola for precisely those reasons of being excessively degraded brought them back i don't think that's something that thrills the conflicts though they probably won't say. this is the human. this strikes on the human. life you know nothing. was said. jerry brown's favorite event is the guts and glory. the inmates have three minutes to grab a chip off of a two thousand pound raging bull the winner gets three hundred dollars i. mean after the peaceful. but it's time where you have to get aggressive you've got to get back. look at him like that. just don't tell you that i look at him like the obvious. god works through me and we did. this made me. so made good use they do with just glory god will be there with. jerry is twenty eight locked up since ninety ninety five he's serving a life sentence since he first entered the competition in two thousand. brown has become a celebrity. doing a good job. in a way i feel like alone i'm alone here i feel like i'm on a plane. you know because the level of education is different my process was on different. aware care of myself and different you kno

and gola has changed. in the seventy's it was infamous for the rapes beatings mud isn't riots taking place behind its rays a while. today the level of violence has dropped and the prison seems to be calm. and i have a chance many times to go with churches in different places all over the place and tell the story of angola open to intrigue and what god is doing in this place and i want to tell you something as i tell that story what you were doing here is becoming evidence to people literally all over the world that where ever jesus he is there is. the bible college graduation. once they have their degree they're assigned to one of the six angola camps to minister to the other inmates and to become missionaries in all the prisons in louisiana. we're going to go out in every corner of this prison and in the end institutions in louisiana we're going to lead men we believe men and worship and prayer and we're going to preach the gospel and we will show it is of that away. we are allowed to do certain things th

for the rest of their lives they're going to dining gola and if their family doesn't come in and remove the remains will be buried there so you're. going to give all three of them only. i've got to. eat. oh and. would you go and do it but it. needs to go oh i didn't. mean jamie oh oh we'd remember me but. you know one of person commits a crime no matter how many times people see you after they don't seem you know they see the crime committed over and over and over again when it's really not there when. i killed a man because i thought he was going to shoot me i cried and i prayed i was so remorseful i didn't want to live for a while. what do the people want to do to me for my actions do they want me to kill myself do they want me to rot in prison for sixty years what will make them feel that i'm remorseful for my actions. maybe if he keep when things maybe if he can be a good model prisoner or maybe somebody to take an interest say here on c n. c. it was almost like the roman days roman glad when the people went to see the lions he's up to this life. and soul of the kid you know my spin