Filmed over seven years with rare access inside America’s largest and most notorious maximum‑security prison, Leaving Angola is a documentary film that follows Justin Singleton — a man serving life without parole — as he forms a powerful bond with Derek Moss, a young father offered early release through a pioneering re‑entry program at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola.
Nobody ever tells you when you’re signing up
Derek Moss
for Re-Entry that there are a couple of lifers you’re going to spend two years with and by the time you leave, you’re going to hate to leave them.
It’s a hopeless place. It’s built to be hopeless…
Kelly Garrett
but he has a way of portraying that hope for others.
The two most important days in a person’s life
Justin Singleton
is the day they were born,
and the day they found out why.
