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The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, is one of the most notorious prisons in U.S history. It has a gift shop. The stark penal colony at the end of a desolate 20 mile stretch of road currently holds over 6,000 people. Sadly, you can’t watch them eat and fight; you can, however, visit the museum and check out prison relics like “Gruesome Gertie,” the Louisiana state electric chair that killed 87 men and women before being decommissioned in 1991.
Times have changed of course, and the museum takes pains to remind visitors that Louisiana’s State Pen is no longer a heartless institution in which prisoners are exploited and abused. But if you stop by Angola on a Sunday in October, you can check out the prison’s annual rodeo, in which unprepared and inexperienced convicts try to ride 2,000 pound bulls. It’s only $5 a ticket.
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