Sister Prejean's book Dead Man Walking, about prisoners on death row, inspired numerous works, including adaptations as a film, an opera, and a play. The prison is the central setting for the Animal Planet documentary series Louisiana Lockdown, which debuted in 2012. The feature film Whiskey Bay (2013), starring Willem Dafoe and Matt Dillon, started shooting in Baton Rouge and at the Angola penitentiary on August 7, 2012. Angola Prison was mentioned in season one of the TV series True Detective. The casket for Billy Graham was made by a male inmate, a senior carpenter named Richard, nicknamed "the Grasshopper", who had been convicted for murder, and in residence there 35 years, at Angola. See also List of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana List of United States state correction agencies Ellen Bryan Moore References Schrift, Melissa (Assistant Professor Anthropology, East Tennessee State University). "Angola Prison Art: Captivity, Creativity, and Consumerism." The Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 119, No. 473, Summer, 2006. pp. 257–274. 10.1353/jaf.2006.0035. Available at Jstor; Available at Highbeam Research; Available at Project MUSE. Footnotes Further reading "W. Feliciana's Angola probe may be extended". The Advocate. August 31, 1989. "Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism". by W.T. Whitney Jr., June 25, 2018. External links Louisiana State Penitentiary Louisiana State Penitentiary (Archive) Louisiana State Penitentiary (Archive) Prison View Golf Course Angola Prison Rodeo Angola Museum Foundation Stein, Joel. "Angola, La.: The Lessons of Cain". TIME. Monday July 10, 2000. Retrieved on January 1, 2010. Angola Airstrip: "Map from 1858", showing the location of Angola plantation in Louisiana Andrew Testa photos of the rodeo and death chamber Angola Museum Oral History Project at The Historic New Orleans Collection West Feliciana Historical Society Museum West Feliciana Tourist Commission 1901 establishments in Louisiana Capital punishment in Louisiana Prisons in Louisiana Angolan-American history Buildings and structures in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Women's prisons in Louisiana Execution sites in the United States Louisiana populated places on the Mississippi River