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Diary 4 August 2000, Week of
the Feast of the Transfiguration
“When we gathered in prayer outside The Louisiana State
Penitentiary at Angola even CH Jackie Means our Director of
Prison Ministries was impressed. Jackie (me included) had
never seen the likes of such local parish support. I counted
30 persons holding hands in that parking lot as we lifted
up to God those who were a few feet away on death row and
nearly a mile away on the sprawling acreage of our nation's
largest prison. Angola, and Louisiana, has the distinction
of the largest life-term population as well. Put these two
facts together and upon entering "The Farm" one
has the uneasy feeling that the immaculately kept grounds
by teams of inmates, supervised by guards on horseback, is
an updated version of a plantation right down to Africans
(Americans) there for a lifetime.”
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