Louisiana State Penitentiary

===Sexual slavery===
A 2010 memoir by [[Wilbert Rideau]], an inmate at Angola from 1961 through 2005, states that "slavery was commonplace in Angola with perhaps a quarter of the population in bondage" throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html | work=The New York Times | first=David | last=Oshinsky | title=Book Review – In the Place of Justice – By Wilbert Rideau | date=June 11, 2010}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' states that weak inmates served as sex slaves who were raped, gang-raped, and traded and sold like cattle. Rideau stated that "The slave's only way out was to commit suicide, escape or kill his master."<ref name="nytimes.com"/> [[Angola 3|Herman Wallace]] and [[Albert Woodfox]], members of the [[Angola 3]], arrived at Angola in the late 1960s. They became active members of the prison's chapter of the [[Black Panther Party]], where they organized petitions and hunger strikes to protest conditions at the prison and helped new inmates protect themselves from rape and enslavement.<ref>[http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/herman-wallace-angola-3-solitary-confinement], ''Mother Jones'', December 2009</ref> C. Murray Henderson, one of the wardens brought in to clean up the prison, states in one of his memoirs that the systemic sexual slavery was sanctioned and facilitated by the officers.<ref>Butler, Anne, and C. Murray Henderson. ''Dying to Tell''. Center for Louisiana Studies, 1992.</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}