A prisoners' rights group is challenging the constitutionality of an agricultural labor program at Louisiana's notorious ...

The Angolite, the inmate edited prison news magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, La., became, while inmate ...

(Times-Signal Editor Craig Franklin shares about his history with the Angola Prison Rodeo, dating back over 40 years.) It was ...

Louisiana's Angola prison, a maximum-security facility infamous for its harsh history, is taking on a new role as an immigrant detention center under a federal-state initiative. Authorities confirmed ...

ANGOLA, La. — A section of Louisiana’s most notorious prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, has a new name and purpose. The former "Camp J" is now called "Louisiana Lockup," a U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of ...

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to participate in its prison rodeo, the last remaining in the country. Always ...

As young men, Quontos and Layla made a poor decision—reckless, immature, and wrong. But they were not hardened criminals.

A new immigration detention facility designed to house hundreds of undocumented immigrants convicted of serious crimes opened in Louisiana this week as part of what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

Every April and October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts the last remaining prison rodeo in the nation. Brining visitors from as far as Denmark, it's a major economic driver for the region.