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In 1986, Sinclair was transferred from Angola State Penitentiary for his own safety, after helping expose a scheme to sell pardons to inmates. Sinclair, who wrote a book about life in prison, was also an award-winning prison journalist, who wrote for Angola's prison magazine, The Angolite.
In 1966, he was sentenced to death for the 1965 murder of convenience store clerk James "J.C." Bodden in Central, on the outskirts of Baton Rouge. In 1972, his sentence was changed to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court found capital punishment, as it existed then, unconstitutional.
In 1986, Sinclair was transferred from Angola State Penitentiary for his own safety, after helping expose a scheme to sell pardons to inmates. Sinclair, who wrote a book about life in prison, was also an award-winning prison journalist, who wrote for Angola's prison magazine, The Angolite.
In 1966, he was sentenced to death for the 1965 murder of convenience store clerk James "J.C." Bodden in Central, on the outskirts of Baton Rouge. In 1972, his sentence was changed to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court found capital punishment, as it existed then, unconstitutional.