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Bloody Angola Podcast by Woody Overton & Jim Chapman

The Rise of Billy Cannon at Angola Prison

Bloody Angola Podcast by Woody Overton & Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Studios

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman bring you a story of redemption today involving Heisman Trophy winner and great LSU Football All American Billy Cannon.
Billy Cannon's life was not free of scandal and although there were stumbles throughout, Billy persevered and the most beloved of LSU players not only found himself, but redemption in the most unlikely of places, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
It's a story you must hear told by two of his lifelong fans in detail.
Its the story of the redemption of Billy Cannon, Great All American!
#LSUFootball #BillyCannon #HeismanTrophy #BloodyAngolaPodcast
#Podcast #PrisonPodcast

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0:00.0

Oh Lord, Bird up.

0:07.0

Bird up, This is the story of America's bloodiest prison, told by the people who lived it, both inside and outside its gates.

0:38.3

The brutal history, as you've never heard it before, from its origin as a slave plantation, to its gradual growth as the bloodiest maximum security prison in America.

0:50.3

To those outside of its gates, it's known as Louisiana State Penitentiary

0:56.1

at Angola. But to those

0:58.0

who have spent time inside its gates,

1:00.4

it's known as bloody

1:02.2

Angola.

1:03.0

The rhythm of

1:04.7

higher let them.

1:07.7

Oh, now,

1:10.2

who I. The rhythm of higher level.

1:18.9

Come with us as we take you through the gates and give you a firsthand look at not only the stories of the stabbing,

1:29.1

rapes, executions, escapes, and murders you won't find on any TV show or the internet,

1:35.9

but also the murders, abductions, attacks, and hostage situations of the staff and their families, otherwise known by the convicts as

1:47.0

free people.

1:53.8

Bloody Angola is a comprehensive no-hold-barred podcast.

1:58.1

It takes you on a journey through time from its inception as a slave plantation to America's

2:03.4

largest maximum security prison, where 80% of its population will die inside the wire.

2:16.2

Get mentally prepared.

2:19.5

Sit back and listen as we cover these stories in detail.

2:26.0

In ways that you've never heard before from people that lived lived it breathed it

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