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audio, stills, text and or video: Go to http://www.zReportage.com to see more - Once known as the bloodiest prison in America, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola has a new reputation as a place of hope for more than 5,000 inmates who live out their life sentences without parole. Inmate missionaries carry what they learn in seminary into the prison's living areas to help men experience God. In one year alone, they baptized more than 150 prisoners.
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Death row at Angola Prison..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Inmate choir members, many with scars and tattoos, sing during an evening worship service..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - An inmate in a tiny Death Row cell reads his bible for hours every day..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Imates during evening worship service in large chapel built by inmates..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Robed inmate choir members, many with scars and tattoos, sing during an evening worship service. Warden Burl Cain has made amazing changes at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, once considered the country's bloodiest prison. Prisoners now meet regularly for bible studies and worship services, and the prison's reputation is now a peaceful one..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Lousiana State Penitentiary at Angola..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Warden BURL CAIN at the prison's Death Row. Cain has made amazing changes at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, LA, once considered the country's bloodiest prison. Prisoners now meet regularly for bible studies and worship services, and the prison's reputation is now a peaceful one..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Inmates and visitors alike see this cement monument with biblical scripture upon first entering the prison grounds..
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Mar. 08, 2007 - Angola, Louisiana, U.S. - Inmate RAYMOND MCGARY with his personalized, leather-clad bible at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, LA during evening worship service in large chapel built by inmates..
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Robin Rayne

ROBIN RAYNE is an Atlanta based, internationally published magazine and newspaper photojournalist and documentary film producer, specializing in developmental disability issues, human rights and social justice concerns. Spanning a 35 year national magazine career, his work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, Forbes, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, DOUBLEtruck Magazine, Paris Match, zReportage.com and Der Spiegel, among dozens more. Robin's stories and projects have been syndicated globally by ZUMA Press since the agency's beginning in 1993. Robin and his wife Kyla live in Canton, Georgia with their trusty dog Seamus a Wheaten terrier.:157


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