Books and Compilations
Rideau wrote In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, recalling his experiences in Angola. It won the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Rideau edited "The Wall Is Strong: Corrections in Louisiana," a University of Southwestern Louisiana composition of magazine and newspaper articles and papers from the Center for Criminal Justice Research of the university. About half of the book's articles originated from The Angolite. Rideau composed the book with former Angolite associate-editor Ron Wikberg and University of Louisiana at Lafayette Professor Burk Foster. It is still in use today in Louisiana.
Rideau and Wikberg also collaborated on Life Sentences, a 1992 anthology of articles from The Angolite, now out of print. It was published in 1992 by Times Books, a subsidiary of Random House.
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