Another inmate, 43-year-old Melvin Lopez, is accused of fatally stabbing Jonathan Robertson. He was booked on a murder count ...
A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive ...
Advocacy groups involved in a federal lawsuit over prison labor at Angola plan a press conference to discuss dangerous work ...
Lafayette inmate Harold Brooks died in Angola after an altercation with officers. Sheriff Spillman says a cardiac event is ...
A 35-year-old inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary is dead after allegedly being stabbed by another inmate during a fight.
MAGA world is yet again trying to market a prison where it will lock up people targeted by the president’s bigoted anti-immigrant crackdown. First, there was “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility in the ...
A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...
Two years after Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers voted to lengthen dozens of prison sentences for criminal convictions, ...
“Today we're here at this legendary Angola prison to announce an agreement between the United States of America and the great state of Louisiana. There has never been an agreement like this one before ...