The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

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

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Corrections has announced Darrel Vannoy will return as the warden of ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is known as “Angola,” the name of the plantation that formerly occupied the land. (Angola is also the name of the African country that was originally home to many ...

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 ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...