Doing Time, And Doing Good, In La.’s Angola Prison
Click here to read or listen to NPR’s Terry Gross interview with Wilbert Rideau.
Wilbert Rideau was sent to Louisisana’s notorious Angola prison in 1961, at the age of 19, for killing a bank-teller hostage after a botched robbery. After 44 years and multiple retrials, he was released on Jan. 15, 2005.