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

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 are 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 indigent 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 appeal thanks to an outside benefactor. for my work and also. just for i'm just not a drug. or working person we're not mourning if you don't have