BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A federal judge heard arguments on a motion to stop using the Farm Line at Louisiana State ...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from federal prisons for female inmates. The 47th ...

The largest maximum-security prison in the United States, Angola has 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff. It occupies 28 square miles in Louisiana, a site larger than the size of Manhattan. Eighty-five ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana found in favor of a class of inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, who have argued since 1992 that the prison’s medical and psychiatric ...

Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend ...

He is exceptional in so many ways and an artist who learned about life and making art in the strangest of places: Angola Prison in Louisiana. When you meet Tyler today, you would not know he'd ...

NOW, HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HECKER WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO ANGOLA PRISON SOON. HE SAID HE BELIEVES HECKER DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONFIRMED THAT TO ME AS WELL.

He had been in solitary confinement in Angola prison, the state penitentiary of Louisiana, since April 1972 for the murder of prison guard Brent Miller. Along with Herman Wallace and Robert King ...