While performing at a prison rodeo in Huntsville, Texas, he escapes and heads for the border, hoping to join his family in Mexico.

The prison rodeo is one of those stories that are at once wildly exotic and perhaps overly familiar, and it's not unique to Angola.

As of 1947 women under the name "Goree Girls" had performed at the prison rodeo.

The women never reunited to make reunion appearances on the radio or at the prison rodeo.

Parchman has the Rodeo Arena, a venue for a prison rodeo.

She learned of the famous prison rodeo.

This prison rodeo draws crowds of up to 14,000 from the "outside" and inmate teams from prisons all over Oklahoma.

In 1972 Arkansas's first prison rodeo was held at the Cummins Unit.

I do like the music, but this wouldn't be my primary interest - I'm more interested in prison rodeos and chilling on the bayous.

A prison rodeo as a window into a living purgatory.