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While in prison, Rideau not only "became rehabilitated" but started an all-Black magazine in the prison and, after mandatory desegregation laws were finally implemented (Rideau is Black), took over as the editor of the main prison publication, The Angolite.
Mikhail Lyubansky: Ladies and Gentlemen: The U.S. (in)Justice System 2010
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During Rideau's years as editor, The Angolite won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award -- and Rideau became a correspondent for Fresh Air, reporting on what it was like to live in solitary confinement and how prisoners feared for their safety on a daily basis.
Mikhail Lyubansky: Ladies and Gentlemen: The U.S. (in)Justice System 2010
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He watched from the offices of the Angolite, the prison magazine produced by inmates.
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In 1976, in an effort to quell violence at the prison, the administration unshackled The Angolite, the prison magazine, written by inmates for inmates.
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We could pick up the telephone in The Angolite office and arrange for calls to journalists all over the country.
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The Angolite was little more than a newsletter when it was set free.
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With the breeze of success in its sails, The Angolite journeyed into uncharted waters for prison journalism.
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Nine were spent as a prison journalist, working on The Angolite, the prison magazine.
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Supreme Court found the death penalty to be unconstitutional -- Rideau set out on a personal odyssey of redemption, rehabilitating himself as a prison journalist, becoming co-editor of the Angolite, a magazine produced by the prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola that has frequently been a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
From On High 2005
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He told the same story to reporters for 25 years as he rose to fame editing The Angolite, said to be the only free prisoner generated magazine behind bars in
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