Object Details
- Description
- This issue of The Angolite, Vol. XII, No. 1 features a cover illustration in yellow, black, and gray depicting a man wearing a striped jumpsuit and handcuffs standing behind a table with scales, The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper, cards and gambling chips, a bottle of liquor, and a handgun. In the background is a prison guard tower. The feature story concerns Washington Correctional Institute, a nearby prison facility, with interviews by Angolite staff of the inmates and staff at the other prison. One article, "The Pardons Scandal," deals with the pardon scam related to form Angolite editor Billy Sinclair, who was an FBI informant on the case. Others cover personnel changes in the ACLU, the dedication of a wildlife refuge on the prison grounds, and regular features including brief news stories, legal advice, and poetry. The final interior page includes subscription information, with an illustration of a manacled hand reaching out from the water. The back cover has a horizontally-oriented illustration in yellow, black, and gray of a dragon lounging on a pile of gold coins wearing pajamas with a prison number on his jacket, and drinking from a goblet while reading this issue of The Angolite. The magazine has eighty-six (86) interior pages and is bound with two (2) metal staples.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Edited by
- Wilbert Rideau, American, born 1942
- Written by
- Tommy Mason
- Illustrated by
- Leonard Pourciau
- Subject of
- Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, American, founded 1835
- Date
- January/February 1987
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Wilbert Rideau and Linda LaBranche
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (closed): 11 1/2 × 8 5/8 × 5/16 in. (29.2 × 21.9 × 0.8 cm)
- Type
- magazines (periodicals)
