You Can Have A Ball At The Angola Prison Rodeo
Okay, you may want to sit down for this. Not that anybody ever reads the web while standing up or anything, but… you’re going to have to brace yourself all the same. This is a story about something that’s kinda cool, then it’s going to get a little too real in here. I’m talking about the Angola Prison Rodeo.
(Why are we showing this picture? Oh, no reason. None at all. Certainly not foreshadowing any horror to come.)
The above term is a little misleading, in that in this case, “Angola” isn’t the impoverished country in southern Africa, but the nickname of the largest Louisiana state penitentiary. Angola holds over 5,000 inmates, and when you have that many people and 18,000 acres to work with, well, imaginations run wild. So, as REAL SPORTS on HBO reports, they hold a rodeo every year (seriously), with animals and everything. All the proceeds go to prison programs, so that’s pretty cool. There are, however, some drawbacks, and brave readers will click through the jump to ruin their lunches.
