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Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bloody Angola, we discuss the stark realities of death and burial within Angola Prison, inspired by Wilbert Rideau's writing which highlight the emotional turmoil of inmates facing mortality. We recount the poignant scenes of funerals and contrast the beauty of Point Lookout cemetery with the grim reality of unclaimed graves raising critical questions about dignity in death and calling attention to the humanity lost within the prison walls and the fears that accompany dying in isolation in America’s bloodiest prison.

Timestamps
06:31 The Funeral of James Cripps
10:45 Point Lookout Cemetery
13:05 The Lease System's Brutality
17:25 The Aftermath of the Lease System
31:03 Changing Conditions in Modern Prisons
35:11 Fulgham's Experience in the Hospital
40:11 Addressing Elderly and Ailing Prisoners
47:15 Fulgham's Medical Furlough and Final Days
48:41 Reflection on Wilbert Rideau's Writing

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line, shackled chain, oh, gluesome gertie
0:24.6	He's calling my name
0:27.6	There is no mercy
0:30.6	And it's been a tentery
0:33.6	Just ask 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 wide And when the world cry these walls inside the wild
0:54.7	And when the wolf cries
0:58.4	I know it's over
1:01.6	Oh, bloody Angola
1:08.1	Oh, oh, bloody Angola. Oh,
1:11.6	Bloody Angola, a podcast 142 years in the making the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.
1:40.8	I'm Jim Chapman.
1:42.6	And look, today I am going to open your eyes maybe a little bit
1:48.5	to the horrors, for lack of a better word, of what it is like to die in prison in Angola,
1:58.0	specifically, be buried there. What happens to you? And what happened back in the
2:03.2	past before Bloody Angola was Bloody Angola and it was still a slave plantation just starting to
2:11.3	grow. I guess you could say it's prison roots. So that's what we're going to talk about today.
2:17.3	And what got me thinking about this was an article that I read from Wilbert
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