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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Angola Prison at night..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 20th April 2008..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Spectators outside the arena..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..The Glory Riders wait to enter the Rodeo arena. They bill themselves as " a horseback mounted Christian ministry team....it is the purpose of the Glory Riders to share the love of God....in the Western tradition." The Glory Riders perform first, before the rodeo begins..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..The Glory Riders wait to enter the Rodeo arena. They bill themselves as " a horseback mounted Christian ministry team....it is the purpose of the Glory Riders to share the love of God....in the Western tradition." The Glory Riders perform first, before the rodeo begins..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Prisoners gather to pray before the Rodeo begins..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 20th April 2008.A bull flips a prisoner during 'Guts and Glory', the last and most dangerous part of the rodeo. Prisoners have to grab a poker chip tied to the Bull's forehead..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..A prisoner carrying the Stars and Stripes waits to enter the arena..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Prisoners who will be taking part in the Rodeo watch through a fence as people arrive at the Rodeo..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..A prisoner is thrown from a horse..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..A prisoner who lasted the longest during the bareback horse riding gestures to the crowd..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Convict Poker. A bull makes short work of the prisoners poker game and turns for a second charge..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 21st April 2008.Prisoners form a line for a work shift. Behind them one of the six 'Camps' that make up the Angola Penitentiary..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..An entrance to one of the Camps at Angola..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Lake Kilarney is an Oxbow lake on the grounds of the prison that was once a part of the Mississippi river..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 21st April 2008.Death Row prisoners exercise in individual pens. They are separated from other inmates by fences and razor wire..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 21st April 2008.Death Row prisoners exercise in individual pens. They are separated from other inmates by fences and razor wire..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Biblical paintings adorn the walls of the waiting room that joins onto the Death Chamber at Angola. The door on the right (with the jack 'o' lanterns) is the entrance to the Death Chamber..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Baton Rouge. 21st April 2008..Warden Burl Cain..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 21st April 2008..The lethal Injection table in the Death Chamber at Angola..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 21st April 2008..Point Lookout, one of Angola's two cemeteries. On average one in three of the inmates who die at the prison are buried here..©Andrew Testa By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..Prisoners wait to enter the arena..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008...©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..A Bull smashes it's way through a game of Convict Poker. Prisoners sit at a poker table. The winner is the one who remains sitting the longest once the bull has entered the arena..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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  • USA. Angola. 12th October 2008..A Bull smashes it's way through a game of Convict Poker. Prisoners sit at a poker table. The winner is the one who remains sitting the longest once the bull has entered the arena..©Andrew Testa/Panos By photographer Andrew Testa
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