The Prison Newspaper
Criminal
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The Carbon Copy Nothingness
In 2012, the prison mirror conducted an investigation into Minnesota lawmakers' use of prison canteen profits. After the investigation was published in the prison newspaper, lawmakers reversed course. A man named Wilbert Rideau spent 44 years at Angola, beginning in 1961. He started his own prison publication, a magazine called The Lifer. Under his leadership, they won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award.
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