Collection:LPB

Genre: Newsmagazine

Place Covered: West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 1993-11-12

Duration: 00:11:40

Subjects: Louisiana State Penitentiary | Prisons | Theater

Contributors:

• Collins, Robert Host
• Chapa, Arcie Reporter
• Whitley, John Interviewee
• Tate, Percy Interviewee
• Tyler, Gary Interviewee
• Jenkins, Lawrence Interviewee
• Hardy, Deborah Interviewee

This segment from the November 12, 1993, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Arcie Chapa’s profile of the Angola Drama Club, a group of inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish who write and perform plays about their life experiences at schools in the surrounding area. She interviews: John Whitley, the warden at Angola; Percy Tate, drama club member; Gary Tyler, drama club member; Lawrence Jenkins, drama club member; and Deborah Hardy, a poet who works with the club. Host: Robert Collins