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"An inside look at an unjust system disguised as justice. With more than two million people in the United States in some kind of penal system, lots of us have relationships with folks who are locked up. In the Louisiana State Penitentiary, aka Angola Prison, the prisoners call her Miss Nurse. She is hired to manage the infection control department. Every year she tests 5000 prisoners and 2000 employees for tuberculosis and runs an HIV/AIDS education...
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Takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for their dying fellow inmates. In doing so, they embark on a journey that may end in personal rehabilitation.
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Nearly forty years in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell for 23 hours a day for a crime he did not commit, Albert Woodfox survived and emerged with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact.
Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, inspired behind bars in his early twenties to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living, Woodfox was serving a 50-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery...
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