ICE Barbie Kristi Noem plots sequel to 'Alligator Alcatraz'... set at America's 'bloodiest' prison, where inmates battle raging beasts in the nation's last prison rodeo

UK Daily Mail ^ | 8/5/2025 | Shawn Cohen

[fruser1]

Inmates participate in Convict Poker where they attempt to be the last contestant with their hands on the table as a bull charges them during the Angola Prison Rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary

[No name given]

And cue the paid lefty protesters in 3, 2, 1…

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Is this a great country or what?

[smokingfrog]

This is not the Babylon Bee?

[Magnum44]

Cool. It could be worse for inmates...

[mowowie]

Sounds Cool....build more

[UnwashedPeasant]

The article makes them sound like gladiators.

[GSWarrior]

This headline makes me LOL. These are not wild animals. Inmates aren’t forced to compete. They would sign up to compete.

[PGR88]

I can imagine the editors at Daily Mail just wet themselves with excitement writing that headline.

[xp38]

They’re going about this wrong. Tropical prisons where many of the inmates feel like home in terms of temperature. They should create a place in Alaska where it’s way cold and dreary. A place where their homeland is major step up from conditions in Alaska Alcatraz.

[rktman]

W.I.N.N.I.N.G! If they bothered to check, IIRC, most of the participants are proud to get to be in it. Butt, daily mail u.k.

[Carry_Okie]

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem

That's pretty low, even for the Daily Mail.

[Rinnwald]

It’s called rodeo, British dumbasses.

There’s also a version outside of prison, where many Hispanics and brown people battle wild animals for money and giant belt buckles.

[lgjhn23]

In the old days, they never even had a fence around that place. Didn’t need it.
It’s kinda on a pennisula caused by a sharp bend in the Mississippi River.
Only one road in and out and the surrounding terrian was heavily stocked with rattlesnakes...lots of em.
They worked em hard from dawn til dusk every single day on the prision farm. Most no one ever made it out by trying to swim across that river. The river current due to that narrow bend is fierce and trying to go by land was equally just as futile. Runmor has it that some of the worst of the worst just “disappeared” in those woods never to be seen or heard from again
Naturally, our bleeding heart RAT lberals over the years put an end to all of that.

[stars & stripes forever]

They are being ‘processed out of the county’ - not being incarcerated. UNBELIEVABLE.

[Texan5]

WTF? Do these folks live on another planet? Prison rodeos used to be held in several states besides Louisiana-they were only stopped in Texas because of unsafe structures and rowdy crowds. The Angola prison rodeo is still a big attraction-and way safer than some of the popular reality shows for sure...

[shotgun]

To paraphrase Caretaker from the Longest Yard, if you get hurt that’s 6 weeks in the infirmary. That’s biscuits and gravy

[TigersEye]

Has Shawn Cohen ever set foot outside his mother’s house?

[Texan5]

I agree-”ICE Barbie”, “AG Blondie”, etc-that is what haters of strong conservative women always say...

[ComputerGuy]

I went to a couple of rodeos back in the day. Funny stuff, but it gets stale after a little while.