Today a co-worker told me about her trip to Louisiana where she attended the Angola prison rodeo. It sounded like something from another era. Monkeys riding dogs, groups of inmates sitting in the middle of the arena inside hula-hoops seeing who could sit still the longest before a bull gored them.
Prisoners were paid $15 and got out of their cell for the day if they participated. One contest paid $500 if they could grab some item that was tied to the head of a full-horned bull. They were getting knocked out left-and-right, then pulled out and taken away in ambulances.
Lord.
I guess those inmates figured if they got hurt, a few weeks or months in the prison hospital would be like a wonderful vacation.
At one point someone announced over the loud speaker that a child had lost her parents. Can you imagine losing your kid at a Louisiana prison rodeo?
Kinnaird 