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A Court Found Conditions at Louisiana’s Prison Farm Unconstitutional. It Let Them Continue Anyway.

At Louisiana’s Angola prison, incarcerated workers are forced to pick crops in dangerous heat. A federal judge ruled last month that a recent Fifth Circuit decision took away his power to help them.

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A federal court has deemed the working conditions at Louisiana's Angola prison farm to be unconstitutional. However, the court's decision has not led to any immediate changes in the treatment of incarcerated workers. The court's ruling was based on a recent decision by the Fifth Circuit, which stripped the federal judge of the authority to intervene in the matter. This has effectively allowed the unconstitutional conditions to persist. The situation highlights the ongoing challenges faced by incarcerated workers in Louisiana, who are subjected to hazardous working conditions despite a court's determination that these conditions are unconstitutional.

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