Louisiana State Penitentiary

===Books about Angola===
* ''In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance'' by Wilbert Rideau (Knopf, 2010)
* ''Cain's Redemption'' by [[Dennis Shere]]
* ''[[Dead Man Walking (book)|Dead Man Walking]]'' by Sister [[Helen Prejean]]
* ''God of the Rodeo'' by [[Daniel Bergner]]
* ''The Search for Hope, Faith, and a Six-Second Ride in Louisiana's Angola Prison'' – Daniel Bergner – [[Crown Publishers]]
* Life Sentences, edited by Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg (Random House, 1992)
* [[A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story]] by [[Billy Wayne Sinclair]]
* Reference in ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' by Jones when describing the racial inequality in the New Orleans judicial system
* The main character of [[Poppy Z. Brite]]'s novel ''[[The Lazarus Heart (novel)|The Lazarus Heart]]'' is sent to Angola for the murder of his lover.
* ''[[The House That Herman Built]]'' by Herman Wallace of the Angola 3, co-written with artist [[Jackie Sumell]]
* An attempt at chemically-induced social control at Angola is a major part of the plot in [[Walker Percy]]'s novel ''[[The Thanatos Syndrome]].''

====Non-fiction books about Angola====
* Butler, Anne and C. Murray Henderson, ''Angola. Dying to Tell'' (Lafayette, LA: The Center for Louisiana Studies, 1992)
* Butler, Anne and C. Murray Henderson, ''Angola Louisiana State Penitentiary: A Half-Century of Rage and Reform'' (Lafayette, LA: The Center for Louisiana Studies, 1990)
*[[Mark T. Carleton|Carleton, Mark T.]], ''Politics and Punishment: The History of Louisiana State Penal System'' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971)
*Foster, Burk, Wilbert Rideau and Douglas Dennis (Editors), '' The Wall is Strong: Corrections in Louisiana'' (Lafayette, LA: The Center for Louisiana Studies, 1995)
*Howard, Robert, ''The other side of the coin: The spiritual life of a black man held captive in Angola prison 40 years'' (Austin TX: 78764, 2006)
*King, Robert Hillary King, ''From the bottom of the heap: The autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King'' (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009)
* Mouledous, Joseph Clarence, ''Sociological Perspectives on a Prison Social System'' Unpublished Master's Thesis, (Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1962)
*Pelot-Hobbs, Lydia "The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State" Unpublished Dissertation, (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, 2019).
*Woodfox, Albert, ''Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope'' (New York: Grove Press, 2019)