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Proposal would change government worker raises
... they would have to get approval from the Civil Service Commission. Cain, warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, worried about what he called a trend away from protections offered to workers under civil service. Smith and other commission ... Comment?
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Officials approve new pay raise plan for LA workers
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... budgets. The state faces a projected $3 billion budget shortfall. Burl Cain, the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, was the only commissioner to vote against the new performance-based pay plan. Comment?
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Civil Service Commission approves raises based on performance
... they would have to get approval from the Civil Service Commission. Cain, warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, worried about what he called a trend away from protections offered to workers under civil service. Smith and other commission ... Comment?
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Angola murder figure seeks federal hearing
A longtime prison inmate is asking the federal court system to find that he was wrongfully convicted in state court for the 1972 murder of a security officer at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Comment?
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Two thousand brave cold, snow for Palin book signing in Fairfax
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... kinds of turnouts? Maybe not Romney But certainly Huckabee could. If he chose the right venue. Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola has a population of over 5000 and I bet they'd all turn out to greet him. 12/05/2009 12:38:38 PM PST by samtheman ... Comment?
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A photographera TMs year at Angola Prison. Photo Essay by Adam Shemper A prisoner hoeing weeds at the edge of a wheat field in the Louisiana State Penitentiary once asked me: What are you doing here? If he were a free man with a camera, he said, he would be somewhere else - out of the blazing summer sun, far from this 18,000-acre prison on former ... Comment?
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Attorney general: Angola must get bids on rodeo
The Louisiana State Penitentiary must seek competitive bids or proposals to award a contract for livestock and other services for the annual Angola Rodeo performances, according to a recent state attorney general's opinion. Comment?
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Inmates assist ill and dying fellow prisoners in hospices
... bathing grown men. Four times a week, Durbin, 51, who's serving 140 years for armed robbery at Louisiana State Penitentiary, meets with frail, dying inmates at the prison's Treatment Center. He bathes them, provides other personal care and often ... Comment?
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Calvin College's January Series will include co-founder of Wikipedia and Rich DeVos
... church in Chicago all are coming to Calvin College in January. Burl Cain, prison warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary; Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia; and Rich DeVos Sr., co-founder of Amway Corp., are among the speakers who will lecture ... Comment?
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Angola Prison Rodeo 2009
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... or experience riding wild bulls. Yes folks I'm talking about the Angola Prison Rodeo at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, LA. I had never heard of such a thing until a couple of years ago when the GF Casey attended and could not stop ... Comment?
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One brave child abuse victim speaks out, and her father goes to prison
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... her father. Fifteen years later, her father, David Boudreaux, is serving a life sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for aggravated rape. G. Andrew Boyd / The Times-Picayune Rachel Fletcher talks candidly about the childhood abuse ... Comment?
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Young mother may have been Code's first victim
... Code Jr. was an ex-convict who eight months earlier received a good behavior release from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The 28-year-old high school dropout served just eight years of a 15-year sentence for aggravated rape. At 19, Code had ... Comment?
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Sexually assaulted at age 8 by her father in her Gretna home, Rachel...
... her father. Fifteen years later, her father, David Boudreaux, is serving a life sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for aggravated rape. "They reached a verdict, and they found him guilty. No possibility of parole," Fletcher said. ... Comment?
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Judge denies convicted murderer's motion
... aliber weapon. After his motion was denied, Loncar was transported by prison guards back to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola where he is serving his life sentence. Comment?
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Cannon's run celebrated 50 years later
... tarnished for a time, Cannon's reputation has been rebuilt through his work as a dentist at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where he tries to serve as a positive example for inmates, and through his routine participation in LSU events. ... Comment?
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... tarnished for a time, Cannon's reputation has been rebuilt through his work as a dentist at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where he tries to serve as a positive example for inmates, and through his routine participation in LSU events. ... Comment?
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Cannon to celebrate 50th anniversary of Halloween run at Tulane game
... sits alone in a booth at Sonny's Pizza in St. Francisville. He made the 22-mile drive from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is the head of the dental clinic. It's been nearly 40 years since Cannon retired from football, though it hardly ... Comment?
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Prison rodeos provide escape from routine
... down on him. Fasola, 27, is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was convicted in 2003 of killing his roommate. But this week, Fasola was one of about 100 inmates at the penitentiary who ... 1 comment
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A golden anniversary LSU, Cannon commemorate 50th anniversary of legendary punt return
... tarnished for a time, Cannon's reputation has been rebuilt through his work as a dentist at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where he tries to serve as a positive example for inmates, and through his routine participation in LSU events. ... Comment?
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Cannon's Halloween trick still a treat
... teams in college football history, except for that play. Cannon, dental director at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, remains a folk hero. A 2 1/2-year stay in prison for counterfeiting in 1983 seems to have hardly dimmed his popularity as ... Comment?
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