This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison

Elderly men serving life without parole at Louisiana's Angola prison reflect on decades behind bars, raising the question of what their continued imprisonment achieves.

Intimate testimony from aging lifers that puts a human face on America's mass incarceration debate.

Listening to the men in the short Opinion Video above is like encountering visitors from another planet. They are serving life sentences at Angola prison, in rural Louisiana, with little to no hope for release. Many are

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