sportingprograms.Thereareboxingteams,
football andbasketball squads and, at Lou-
isiana’s Angola prison, the famous inmate
rodeo competition. While these programs
aren’t directly a ached to “earning time,” in
certain prisons inmates can reduce their
sentences for good behavior—and what
be er way to exhibit good behavior than
practicing good sportsmanship.
FIGHT CLUB
Above: Chalernpol
Sawangsuk; top left:
Arran Burton, a Muay
Thai boxer from the
U.K.; left: Kirill Sokur,
the Estonian founder
of Prison Fight
“THE FIGHTS GIVE
INMATES AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR
A CAREER AFTER
PRISON—THEY CAN
COMPETE INSTEAD
OF BECOMING
CRIMINALS AGAIN.”
