Two horses stand outside the arena just before the Angola Prison Rodeo at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Drew Hawkins / Gulf States Newsroom 7 of ...

A dunking booth labeled “Dunk A Con” stands outside the arena at the Angola Prison Rodeo at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, on Saturday, April 26, 2025. The carnival-like atmosphere ...

A dunking booth labeled “Dunk A Con” stands outside the arena at the Angola Prison Rodeo at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, on Saturday, April 26, 2025. The carnival-like atmosphere ...

ANGOLA RODEO ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the only place in the whole wide world you’ll see that. DREW HAWKINS, BYLINE: Four men incarcerated at the prison commonly known as Angola sit at ...

ANGOLA – The annual Angola Prison Rodeo, marking its 60th anniversary this year, offers more than the chance for glory for its participants. Proceeds from the event fund educational programs ...

History of the Angola Prison Rodeo. ... the penitentiary constructed a 4,500-seat arena in 1969. Today, the rodeo draws such massive crowds that a newer arena now holds more than 10,000 attendees.

America's most famous prison rodeo returns in 2025 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with a new warden who is very familiar with overseeing what's known as the "Wildest Show in the South." ...

The first Angola Prison Rodeo in September 1965. (Courtesy of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections) Founded just months after the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, the Angola ...

Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend their wares at market rate: a rodeo.

The Angola Prison Rodeo is held each Sunday in October, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, 17544 Tunica Trace, Angola. Tickets can be purchased online, or by calling ...

(The Center Square) - For nearly 69 years, spectators poured into McAlester, Oklahoma to watch state inmates rope and sometimes ride at the state prison.

America's most famous prison rodeo returns this fall to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, where the event known as "The Wildest Show in the South" will draw tens of thousands of fans ...