10/6 Lifers

Bloody Angola Podcast by Woody Overton & Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Studios

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bloody Angola, we investigate the plight of the "10-6 lifers," who were misled into believing they would serve only 10 years and six months but instead faced decades in prison.

Timestamps
04:26 The 10-6 Lifers' Forgotten Story
09:42 The Shift in Louisiana's Justice System
15:08 A Glimmer of Hope
20:18 The First Releases
26:13 A New District Attorney
29:18 The Path to Freedom
33:49 Resentencing Hearings Begin
37:55 Life After Angola
43:30 Montgomery's Release

Transcript

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackled chain
0:20.6	Oh, gluesome gertie is calling my name there is no mercy in this penitentiary
0:33.6	just asked the hill string gang
0:38.2	Rangled of three
0:40.7	I'm here for life
0:44.7	I'm here to die
0:47.8	Inside these walls
0:51.8	Inside the wild
0:54.7	And when the world cries
0:58.4	I know it's over
1:01.6	Oh, bloody Angola
1:08.1	Oh, oh, bloody Chapman.
1:43.9	And if you listen to Real Life, Real Crime Daily this week, I'm recording this on a Monday,
1:50.3	and Woody Everton, unfortunately, could not be with us today.
1:55.4	He had some sort of family issue he had to deal with, so we're going to move right along.
2:00.4	And look, with this episode of Bloody Angola, y'all, I have a backstory on this.
2:05.5	I want to tell you, and it brings me all the way back to one of our first few seasons of
2:12.1	Bloody Angola.
2:13.0	And we had a guest on a couple of episodes on those early releases, and his name was Andrew Hundley.
2:21.3	And he was actually the first juvenile lifer released when Louisiana changed the law
2:28.4	regarding inmates who were sentenced as juveniles to life in prison.
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