Towards the end of this week, I decided to watch a documentary called The Farm: Angola USA (1998). The documentary follows the lives of six inmates in Angola (the colloquial name for Louisiana State Penitentiary). I already knew quite a bit about Angola from Dead Man Walking, and the film provided an interesting perspective on the PIC, and inmates facing life or shorter sentences. One aspect that was particularly interesting to me was the actual physical layout of the prison itself. Angola is the largest prison in acreage in the US. Within the prison gates there’s an 800 person town, an elementary school, four churches, a golf course and a rodeo. Another interesting aspect of the film was the coverage of controversial figure Warden Burl Cain. Cain was the warden at Angola from 1995 to 2016, which is an incredibly long tenure for a state penitentiary warden. Cain brought violence down within Angola by introducing more manual labor requirements, heightened the presence of Catholicism, and opened up the prison to the media, hence the documentary.