Grace before dying

Louisiana has some of the toughest prison laws in the nation, where one of every 55 residents is behind bars -- many of them for life. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility in Angola, some 85 percent of the 5,100 inmates are expected to die in incarceration. Until recently, that was a lonely process: prisoners were buried in shabby boxes in numbered graves. But in 1998, Angola prison created a hospice program that officials say has been transformative. Newsweek