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

The ministry reports the gospel message was recently shared with nearly 800 inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana.

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

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

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

A Council Bluffs man who avoided the gallows in 1965 after killing a 13-year-old in a "wild shooting spree" died in state custody last week. Leon Tice Jr. was pronounced dead at 11:14 a.m. last ...

Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of Eastern State Penitentiary and how it was different than other prisons at the time.

Georgia’s Special Penitentiary Service on Wednesday said Mzia Amaglobeli, the founder and manager of Batumelebi and Netgazeti media outlets who was arrested last month for assaulting a police officer ...

Opening remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of the State Visit by H.E. Joao Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola Your Excellency Joao Lourenço, President of the Republic of ...

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...

FILE - Exterior view of The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, Monday, March 9, 2020. (Samuel Golay/Keystone via AP, File)/ ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State Prison as a homicide, according to CDCR. Officers were conducting ...