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Please Help Us Stop Kids From Being Sent To The World’s Deadliest Adult Prison

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Nanci Youngblood
3 years ago

This is outrageous!

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Michael Brady
3 years ago

Governor, you may remember the late Whiney Houston song "The Greatest Love of All." It opens with, "I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of pride to make it easier." Troubled children need a chance at rehabilitation and not aloud any possibility to be influenced by adult inmates.

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Richard Venable
3 years ago

How outrageous. How bigoted. How inhumane. No rationalization can excuse this.

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Rodger Washington
3 years ago

The prison system is broken, and the Justice system never was.

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Tialonda Denise Benjamin
3 years ago

No kids inside no prison with adults its not right and wrong to do them that way. I have been saying this since 2003 advoacting for our youth.

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Joan Smith
3 years ago

Children have special needs that cannot be served in a adult prison setting. We need reforms that will rehabilitate youthful offenders and not programs that serve to make the prison system a bigger corporation.

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Bob Martin
3 years ago

I can't believe it is even on the table to put children in Angola prison. No, no NO!!!

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Steve Somerson
3 years ago

No kids in Angola!!

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Patricia Cook
3 years ago

This is outrageous.

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Liz Murphy
3 years ago

Do NOT send children to this terrible place.It is wrong, no matter what they are accused of. They will only lose hope and become hardened forever. Thank you for showing Mercy.

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Larry Leverett
3 years ago

What is wrong with America. Stop sending kids to Angola!!!

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IRMGARD CONLEY
3 years ago

children's brains are NOT adult

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Margaret Stofsky
3 years ago Featured

I am a retired school psychologist writing to express my deep concern, even horror that young people would be sent to Angola. I have seen first hand the terrible consequences of kids sent to adult prisons. Please do not go forward with this plan!

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James A Vander Poel
3 years ago

And this is the legacy you wish to leave behind? To be known for all time as the cruelest governor of Louisiana?

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Cory Lemmon
3 years ago

PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN T O BE INCARCERATED AT ANGOLA PRISON OR ANY ADULT PRISON.

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Diane Preston
3 years ago

No kids should be in Angola prison

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Alicia Sweatt
3 years ago

Juvenile and adult offenders should NEVER be housed in the same facility.

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Crystal reding
3 years ago

Kids need love and direction, not fear.

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Valerie Cochran
3 years ago

I read "Solitary" and can't imagine what those conditions would do to kids given what they did to adults. To be clear, the Angola 4 were largely held on death row, not solitary as commonly understood.

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Heidi Renteria
3 years ago

Putting minors in Angola Prison is incredibly brutal, racist, and the worst possible way to make Lousiana safer. Invest in them, for our future!