The Visiting Room Project is the largest collection of first person testimonials of people serving life sentences in prison, featuring the stories of men serving life in Angola Prison in Louisiana. Nearly 5000 people are sentenced to die in Louisiana prisons without the possibility of parole.
On this edition of Your Call, we're rebroadcasting our discussion about The Visiting Room Project, an initiative that invites people to sit face-to-face with men serving life without the possibility of parole. Nearly 5,000 people are sentenced to die in Louisiana prisons without any possibility of parole.
The Visiting Room Project is the largest collection of first person testimonials ever gathered from people serving this sentence. We’ll speak with two participants of the project who were recently freed and find out what it’s like to re-enter the world after decades behind bars.