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| Longtime Angola prison warden Burl Cain says he is resigning |
| By ksla.com- Kiran Chawla |
| Published: 12/10/2015 |
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Longtime Angola warden Burl Cain says he will resign effective January 1, 2016. While he insists he has done nothing wrong, Cain’s decision to step down as head of the country’s largest prison comes amid a series of investigative reports by The Advocate newspaper. The reports by the newspaper questioned whether Cain’s private business dealings, including a large real estate deal, violated a Louisiana Department of Corrections policy that forbids personal interactions between Department of Public Safety and Corrections personnel and inmates or their families. Perhaps one of the most damning reports by the newspaper alleged that Cain got a prisoner who was on his deathbed to videotape a murder confession, claiming that he was actually the killer and that another inmate, who was friends with a Cain associate, was not. The videotape was ultimately not used in court and the accused killer is still locked up. The inmate who made the videotape died three days later. A prosecutor on that case called the videotape a "fraud perpetrated on the court." Cain, who maintains he has done nothing wrong in any of the instances raised by the newspaper, said The Advocate planned to publish another report about him next Sunday. Read More. |
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