A state penitentiary hosting a rodeo with convicts riding bucking broncs?!
Sounded like bull to me, but it’s true.
Five times a year the warden of America’s largest high-security prison in Angola, Louisiana puts on a rodeo and an arts-and-craft fair — “where convicts who’ve earned the right get to buck broncs and straddle bulls, as well as mingle with sell-out crowds of happy visitors, including kids,” according to a recent article in the
Christian Science Monitor
.
Should Pelican Bay and the Fortuna Rodeo team up ? Before they make any rash decisions, it’d be best to check out the
CSM
piece —
One Warden’s Way of Instilling Hope Behind Bars
— as well as the
Journal
‘s recent take on the local rodeo scene —
Last Cowboy Standing
.
This article appears in Gold From Green in a Gray Area.