'I went out on a tractor with inmates, and we were picking carrots, and I looked around, and I said to them... 'everybody looks like us, meaning people of color.'' -LesterHoltNBC tells AriMelber about his time spent inside Louisiana's Angola prison
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt brings you inside the largest maximum security prison in the United States.
In a new series, "Justice for All", Holt spends two nights in the notorious Angola Louisiana State Penitentiary. Lester reports on racial discrimination inside the U.S. criminal justice system, Angola’s plantation history and reveals what inmates told him about seeking justice.
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