Leprosy and the Prison System

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Inmates were not supposed to interact with the patients at any time. Neil became especially close with one patient in particular, an elderly woman named ala bounds. It didn't take neil long to understand that it was basically impossible for him to catch leprosy. With that fear gone, he was just trying to keep himself occupied and finishd out his time.

In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But white collar criminals weren't the only people living there, and the other people inside had basically been forgotten about by the outside world, some of them for decades.

Learn more about Neil White’s time at Carville in his memoir, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts.

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