Louisiana State Penitentiary

===Inmate education===
Angola offers literacy classes for prisoners with no high school diploma and no [[General Equivalency Diploma]] (GED), from Monday through Friday in the main prison, and in camps C-D and F. Angola also offers GED classes in the main prison and in camps C-D and F. The prison also offers ABE ([[Adult Basic Education]]) classes for prisoners who have high school diplomas or GEDs, but who have inadequate Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) scores to get into vocational school. SSD (Special School District #1) provides services for special education students.<ref name="Education">"[http://www.corrections.state.la.us/lsp/educational_progs.php Educational Programs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023100050/http://www.corrections.state.la.us/lsp/educational_progs.php |date=October 23, 2010 }}." Louisiana State Penitentiary. Retrieved on August 29, 2010.</ref>

Prisoners with satisfactory TABE scores may be admitted to vocational classes. Such classes include automotive technology, carpentry, culinary arts, graphic communications, horticulture, and welding.<ref name="Education"/> In 1995, a campus of the [[New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary]] was established in the penitentiary following an invitation from the prison warden, Burl Cain. <ref> Erik Eckholm, [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/bible-college-helps-some-at-louisiana-prison-find-peace.html Bible College Helps Some at Louisiana Prison Find Peace], nytimes.com, USA, October 5, 2013</ref> The school has significantly reduced the rate of violence in the prison. 

In 1994, the United States Congress voted to eliminate prisoner eligibility for [[Pell Grants]], making religious programs such as the New Orleans Baptist program the only ones in higher education available to prisoners.<ref name=Ridgeway3/> As of Spring 2008 95 prisoners were students in the program. Angola also offers the PREP Pre-Release Exit Program and Re-Entry Programs for prisoners who are about to be released into the outside world.<ref name="Education"/>

Inmate library services are provided by the main Prison Library and four outcamp libraries. The prison is part of the Inter-Library Loan Program with the [[State Library of Louisiana]].<ref name="Activities">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20090527091213/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/a-decade-behind-bars-return-to-the-farm-4329/angola-prison-activities Angola Prison Activities]." ''[[National Geographic Channel|National Geographic]]''. Retrieved on July 24, 2010.</ref>