🏛️ Angola Prison’s Longest-Serving Inmate Sammie Robinson Jr. entered Angola Prison in 1953 — at just 16 years old — and never left. Convicted of aggravated rape and later a prison murder, Robinson spent 66 years behind bars before passing away in 2019 at age 83, making him Louisiana’s longest-serving prisoner. Angola, built on a former slave plantation, still runs a massive prison farm where most inmates serve life without parole. Robinson’s story is more than one man’s fate — it’s a mirror of