The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

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.

Kathy Hochul has deployed National Guard personnel ... strike affecting most state prisons. Striking officers observed the National Guard members entering the prison Wednesday.

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

While Louisiana stands out as a hotbed for reversed convictions, the state hasn't disciplined a prosecutor for withholding ...

Jose Francisco Herrera Munoz, 18, and Angel Gonzales Gutierrez, 19, had $112,000 worth of tobacco and $89,500 worth of meth ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - South Dakota’s four-year process to address the state’s correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men’s prison on 160 acres of ...

following a state prison guard as he jogs toward a scrum of fellow officers grappling with an inmate along a fence line ringed with barbed wire. It’s after 9 p.m. on a cold and rainy December ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state's ...

(WBAY) - Governor Evers announced on Sunday a $500 million plan for the Department of Corrections that includes ... Institution turned into a state-of-the-art medium security, vocational village ...