Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the “farm line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at ...

ANGOLA, La. – Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

Records released by the Louisiana Department of Corrections show Narcan deployments in state prisons have increased sharply ...

Governor Jeff Landry's criminal justice policies have initiated significant changes within Louisiana's correctional framework, leading to an increased inmate population and elevated medical ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Leslie Harris has missed most milestones in his daughter's life while serving a decades-long sentence in Louisiana for armed robbery and is unlikely to get out before her prom, ...

Inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the U.S.— a facility about the size of Manhattan— had a special opportunity to create new, magical ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities ...