Louisiana State Penitentiary

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*Angola was featured in the documentary ''[[The Farm: Angola, USA]]'' (1998).
*Angola Prison was featured in [[Oliver Stone]]'s movie ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]''. The scene where [[Jim Garrison]] ([[Kevin Costner]]), along with Bill Broussard ([[Michael Rooker]]), goes to interview Willie O'Keefe ([[Kevin Bacon]]) is portrayed as having taken place at Angola Prison.
*Angola Prison was mentioned in the 2007 [[Coen brothers]] film ''[[No Country for Old Men (film)|No Country for Old Men]]''.
*Actor [[William Hurt]] prepared for his role in the 2008 remake of ''[[The Yellow Handkerchief (2008 film)|The Yellow Handkerchief]]'' (2008) by spending four days at the Penitentiary, including an overnight stay, rare for a volunteer, in a maximum-security cell. In a 2010 interview, he spoke of having a three-hour sight-unseen (around the corner of the dividing wall) talk with his next-door neighbor that night. He also said "the bed has about an inch-and-a-half-thick mattress on sheer steel. The toilet has no soft seat. The floor is marbleized concrete. It's horrible. It's unthinkable." He felt mostly sorrow for the inmates he got to know, "85 percent of the people in there are going to die there." In the film, he played an ex-con released after serving a six-year sentence in a Louisiana prison for "an accidental bit of trouble".<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=124043013 Interview with William Hurt: Transcript], by Terry Gross for ''[[Fresh Air]]'', February 25, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2010.</ref>
*In season 6, episode 15 of the TV series ''[[Bones (TV series)|Bones]]'', an inmate is threatened with a transfer to Angola should he not cooperate with an investigation.
*Sister Prejean's book ''Dead Man Walking'', about prisoners on death row, inspired [[Dead Man Walking (disambiguation)|numerous works]], including adaptations as a [[Dead Man Walking (film)|film]], an opera, and a play.
*The prison is the central setting for the [[Animal Planet]] documentary series ''Louisiana Lockdown'', which debuted in 2012.
*The feature film ''[[Whiskey Bay]]'' (2013), starring [[Willem Dafoe]] and [[Matt Dillon]], started shooting in Baton Rouge and at the Angola penitentiary on August 7, 2012.<ref>Scott, Mike. "[http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2012/08/matt_dillon_willem_dafoe_join.html Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe join cast of Baton Rouge-shot 'Whiskey Bay']." ''[[The Times-Picayune]]''. (August 16, 2012)</ref>
*Angola Prison was mentioned in [[True Detective (season 1)|season one]] of the TV series ''[[True Detective]]''.<ref name="esqu_15Bu">{{Cite web| title = 15 Burning Questions for True Detective to Answer| work = Esquire| date = 2014-03-07| access-date = 31 August 2020| url = https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a32803/true-detective-finale-questions/}}</ref>
*The casket for [[Billy Graham]] was made by a male inmate, a senior carpenter named Richard, nicknamed "the Grasshopper", who had been convicted for murder, and in residence there 35 years, at Angola.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/videos/1840597789329727/|title=Franklin Graham – Many people have asked me about my...|access-date=February 14, 2020|via=www.facebook.com}}</ref>