The Angolite

Under federal court-ordered reforms, including desegregation of work assignments and programs, the prison warden picked Wilbert Rideau as editor in 1975.

[4] The magazine won the George Polk Award in 1979, for the articles "The Other Side of Murder" and "Prison: a Sexual Jungle".

Eventually the state indicted the head of the pardons board, an appointee of Governor Edwin Edwards.

Mr. Sinclair, now a snitch, has been transferred out of the prison for his own safety, leaving Mr. Rideau to confront skeptical readers and sources.

Jason Berry of The New York Times reported that "Sinclair became a pariah in the highly politicized prison system" and that he had "a bitter falling out with Rideau.

"[10] Sinclair was moved by authorities to highly secure quarters within the Louisiana State Police Barracks,[11] and later, the N-5 Special Management Unit cell block in the David Wade Correctional Center, for his protection.

It was a compilation of magazine and newspaper articles, and papers from the Center for Criminal Justice Research of University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Together they edited and published Life Sentences in 1992 (now out of print), articles and stories drawn from The Angolite.

"[18] In 2010 Rideau said that even during the period when he was still incarcerated, the LSP administration under Burl Cain began "clamping down" on the newspaper.