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Renewed fighting raises fears for peace in DR Congo, wider region

Anadolu Agency 12 Nov 2023
Within the framework of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), Angola has been facilitating talks between the parties that allowed the adoption of the Luanda Roadmap on the pacification process of eastern Congo ... 4 in Angola to assess the security situation in eastern Congo.
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The Wrongful Conviction Scandal That Never Happened

Scheerpost 12 Nov 2023
Angola also established one of the best prison law libraries in the United States, a sanctuary of sorts where jailhouse lawyers help other prisoners challenge their convictions and sentences ... After he was assaulted, Jackson said, his lawyer secured his return to Angola, as long as he promised to refrain from embarrassing the authorities.
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Judge orders federal oversight of Angola, says lack of medical care remains unconstitutional

The Advocate 07 Nov 2023
It is the latest federal intervention in a prison that has been sanctioned many times over the past few decades, and the most recent development in a yearslong legal battle over medical care at Angola ... A year later, lawyers for those incarcerated at Angola argued in a two-week remedy trial that little had changed since the judge's ruling.
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The story of a horrendous injustice and the three people who tried to expose it ...

Alternet 04 Nov 2023
Angola also established one of the best prison law libraries in the United States, a sanctuary of sorts where jailhouse lawyers help other prisoners challenge their convictions and sentences ... After he was assaulted, Jackson said, his lawyer secured his return to Angola, as long as he promised to refrain from embarrassing the authorities.
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The Scandal That Never Happened

ProPublica 04 Nov 2023
Angola also established one of the best prison law libraries in the United States, a sanctuary of sorts where jailhouse lawyers help other prisoners challenge their convictions and sentences ... After he was assaulted, Jackson said, his lawyer secured his return to Angola, as long as he promised to refrain from embarrassing the authorities.
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Appeals court stays order to remove youth from Angola

Longview News-Journal 15 Sep 2023
The entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola ... State juvenile justice officials have said between 70 to 80 children have been transferred to Angola in the last year ... Lawyers representing the youths held at Angola were not immediately available for comment.
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Louisiana youths held at adult prison’s old death row suffer heat, isolation, advocates say

Wtop 19 Jul 2023
The document, filed in Baton Rouge and dated Monday, says state officials have broken promises to provide constitutionally acceptable facilities for young people housed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — a remote prison farm with a notorious history of violence.
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Louisiana youths held at adult prison's old death row suffer heat, isolation, advocates say

Times Union 18 Jul 2023
The document, filed in Baton Rouge and dated Monday, says state officials have broken promises to provide constitutionally acceptable facilities for young people housed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — a remote prison farm with a notorious history of violence.
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Fueled by Family Experiences with Incarceration, Black Girls Rising Seeks to Close Youth Prisons in Louisiana

Scheerpost 14 Mar 2023
“If a friend needs help or if they’re in jail and they don’t have the resources for a lawyer,” FFLIC can help refer one, Cenance said ... Linares is currently one of the lawyers representing youth detained at the Angola prison in a lawsuit that aims to get the facility closed down.
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US Lawfare as a Weapon of War. The Destabilization of Latin America

GlobalResearch 14 Feb 2023
As they worked with international human rights lawyers to publicize Lula’s plight, Zanin, Martins and Valim created their own definition of the term ... As Lula defense lawyer Valeska Martins emphasizes, Lawfare is a tactic that can be used against any political enemy from across the political spectrum.
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Southern Africa: Angola Takes On Chair of SADC Defence Lawyers Working Group

All Africa 11 Feb 2023
Ramiros -- As from this Thursday Angola will chair the Working Group of Defence Lawyers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), for a one-year term ....
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US Lawfare and the Destabilization of Latin America. “Lawfare used as a “Weapon of Warfare”

GlobalResearch 27 Jan 2023
As they worked with international human rights lawyers to publicize Lula’s plight, Zanin, Martins and Valim created their own definition of the term ... As Lula defense lawyer Valeska Martins emphasizes, Lawfare is a tactic that can be used against any political enemy from across the political spectrum.
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Teens at Angola facilitiy maced, held in lengthy isolation, youths say in legal filings

The Advocate 10 Jan 2023
A cell in A block sits ready to be occupied in the new youth facility at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on Monday, October 17, 2022 in Angola, Louisiana ... Concerns that youth would not receive treatment consistent with other OJJ facilities dominated civil rights lawyers' arguments against the Angola plan at the September trial.
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Kelly Harnett Had to Get Free

New York Magazine 04 Jan 2023
She’s done better than paid lawyers.” ... She was officially a jailhouse lawyer ... She told me that she had modeled herself on the only jailhouse lawyer she knew back then ... One of the most famous jailhouse lawyers was Calvin Duncan, who spent 29 years in Angola prison, where he worked in the law library.
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Louisiana could pay lawyers up to $415,000 to defend putting incarcerated youth at Angola

Yahoo Daily News 27 Dec 2022
Last month, it expanded that contract to cover litigation related to the opening of a juvenile facility at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola ... Their lawyers argue an adult prison is an inappropriate setting for incarcerated young people ... Louisiana could pay lawyers up to $415,000 to defend putting incarcerated youth at Angola.

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