A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive ...

A team of prison reformists made their final push Tuesday to convince a federal judge to order an end to “degrading and dehiumanizing” labor for field workers on the so-called Farm Line at the state’s ...

Four immigrant men held inside “Camp 57,” a recently opened federal immigration lockup located at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, were released from the facility to rejoin their families ...

The number of inmates in state custody has gone up by about 2,000 in the two years since the Louisiana Legislature passed a ...

A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...

The ACLU of Louisiana demands transparency, including the release of video footage, as the death of an Angola Prison inmate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incarcerated fathers and daughters reunite at Angola Prison in Louisiana for a dance that bridges years of separation — hosted by ...

Advocacy groups involved in a federal lawsuit over prison labor at Angola held a press conference to discuss dangerous work ...

A scheme run out of an Angola jail cell led to the murder of a prominent Biloxi couple and the downfall of a local mayor.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Four former Angola Prison supervisory correctional officers were sentenced Thursday for assaulting a shackled and handcuffed inmate who was not resisting. The officers, 43 ...

A 35-year-old inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary is dead after allegedly being stabbed by another inmate during a fight.