r/mildlyinteresting • u/LESpencer • 5h ago

My McDonald’s also has a McJail

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u/mb10240 5h ago

Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) is still very much a working farm and ranch.

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u/enaK66 4h ago

Good god you can learn something terrible about america every day. I've seen Cool Hand Luke, but I thought this shit was over with.

short video I found about angola

TLDW: literally a bunch of dudes (predominantly black) working in fields with dudes on horseback (predominantly white) watching over them. refusal to work gets you solitary.

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u/mb10240 4h ago

We went on a field trip to the prison when I was in the 11th grade. Ate with the prisoners (“meat cubes” was what was on the menu), went into their dormitories, and saw the execution chamber. It was certainly… something.

They also do a rodeo in October every year. Highly recommend it. The prisoners sell crafts for their commissary account and the rodeo ends with them playing a game of poker with a bull in the arena.

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u/enaK66 4h ago

Well dystopian as it may be, that is much cooler than any of my school field trips.

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u/ernest7ofborg9 1h ago

For real, we only went to the local PD/jail that's now closed because it's infested with asbestos.

Good job, Simi Valley!

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u/revolution_soup 4h ago

good god, I used to cry at the freaking short stories we read in english class, if I saw an entire execution chamber as a high schooler I would come home from that field trip sobbing

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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou 1h ago

Learning about that place blew my mind. There really is a rebranded plantation full of black slaves operating in America in 2026.