May 6, 2008
Angola’s Black Bear Warden
A 450 pound black bear has taken residence in the sprawling grounds of a Louisiana State Penitentiary.
“I love that bear being right where it is,” Warden Burl Cain said Monday. “I tell you what, none of our inmates are going to try to get out after dark and wander around when they might run into a big old bear. It’s like having another guard at no cost to the taxpayer.”
Maria Davidson, manager of the Large Carnivore Program for the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries, pisses on that idea.
“Bears are actually very shy, their tendency is to run and hide,” Davidson said. “We’ve never had a predatory attack by a black bear in Louisiana, to our knowledge, on pets or livestock. As for a bear coming out and rushing an inmate, I don’t see that happening.”
Gary Young, head of the executive management office at the prison, counters that Angola “has plenty of other kinds of dangerous wildlife, including alligators, rattlesnakes and wild pigs”.
Prisoners be warned.
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