Whether volunteering in hospice, designing the prison magazine or leading the drama team, Gary Tyler lived an eventful life ...

and carved wooden roses dipped in red paint—all made and sold by the incarcerated men of Angola, constituting a unique folk-art aesthetic that exists no place else. The prison’s most infamous ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo consists of several competitions ... Charles Grace, a prisoner and art vendor, said he enjoys welding and is happy to sell his items to the community.