Books by Wilbert Rideau
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English
review 1: Incredibly detailed account of a man imprisoned at 19 years of age for murdering a white woman in 1961, but developed into a mature, thoughtful and successful journalist within Angola Prison. He made great gains for prison reform and for freeing individuals wrongfully incarcerate...
language
English
review 1: This is the memoir of Wilbert Rideau who in 1961, at the age of 19, was convicted or murder of a white woman during a bodged bank robbery. Sentenced to death by a racially biased judical system, he was on death row at Angola, Louisana's notoriously violent penitentiary. He suffer...