It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

Today, justice was served to those who chose to traffic and distribute illicit narcotics in Angola State Penitentiary. I want to thank the efforts and collaboration of the United States Attorney ...

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security ...

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state prisons—the rate may now be, at most, 6 cents a minute. That is expected to ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.