Golfing With The Guards At Angola Penitentiary

Charity is a virtue, and there are a great many people that need help inside Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the country. But the charity that brought me to Angola on a hot, windless Friday was a golf fundraiser for the Angola Prison Museum. The museum is a small building just outside the prison gates within which thousands of tourists every month learn a little bit about the prison and how much better it is under Angola’s current warden, Burl Cain, who created the museum in 1998.

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