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After Angola | holding bodies: a justice anthology

18m 05s

"After Angola" follows a small group of men who formed a peer support group after they'd spent significant time inside Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary, once the most violent prison in America.

Aired: 03/18/24 | Expires: 03/19/29
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