Welcome to Angola. Eighty percent of the prisoners who enter here will never leave.
This bull's horns are painted red for the finale event. The prisoner who can grab a coin from its forehead will be the victor, and win the grand prize: $150.
Last-minute volunteering for events that need filling. The rodeo is treated as a reward, and prisoners can be dropped from it at any time.
James Turner calls himself the Bareback King of Angola.
He's been incarcerated since the age of fourteen for second degree murder.
He's looking forward to the outcome of Obama's prison reform act, which could let him see freedom when he turns thirty.
Seventy year old G. Jones helped open the very first rodeo at Angola in 1969. He's currently serving the 49th year of his life sentence for rape.
El Cowboy is from San Antonio, Texas.
Waiting in the wings for the opening ceremony to begin.
The National Anthem plays.
The $450,000 a day revenue pays for Baptist seminary classes at the prison, inmate funerals, education, and maintenance of the prison's six chapels.