Louisiana Penitentiary at Angola institutes prison reform

The Louisiana State Capitol building / Closeup of an unidentified man who then displays a bullwhip, and throws it over a fence into water / Men in horizontal striped convict uniforms look at a small notice on a bulletin board; it's a caricature of a man with a whip, another stopping the assault, and a prisoner on his hands and knees / Outside four men with two in straw hats looking over the notice / With all African Americans working on a rail track at right, a prisoner is thrown to the ground by others, and his shirt is stripped up / The overseer raises a large leather stop and a cut to him whipping with it / At a guard watches as an African American is handcuffed to a fence; a look at his face / A guard puts a man in a concrete hot box / VS A large farm area with a guard holding up a small potato / A Black man stoops down to pick the vegetables / Mules pull plows as an overseer watches / A line of men using hoes to chop at grass / Two men working between rows of sugarcane / A brick building with 'Receiving Station' / A man in an office speaks with a prisoner holding a straw hat / VS hungry men eat a meal; numerous plates of food with eggs, bread, cheese, and pie; they're hungrily eating / The 'General Hospital' with bars on the windows behind a barbed wire fence / A doctor with gloves and a black man lying on a table, and surgeons during an operation / A guard holds a rifle with prisoners lined up and going into a building / Note: exact year not known