‘Bloodiest prison in the US’: children detained in Louisiana’s Angola prison allege abuses

Juvenile prisoners were routinely punished by fellow inmates at the Alcatraz of the south', according to a new lawsuit

On his 16th birthday, Charles Chuck" Daniel was put behind bars.

Then, six months later, in the summer of 1996, he would find himself transferred to Louisiana's Angola prison - referred to by some as the Alcatraz of the south" - to serve out a 149-year sentence for attempted murder and armed robbery that in effect amounted to life imprisonment.