Every April and October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts the last remaining prison rodeo in the nation. Brining ...

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 ...

An inmate, Anthony Craig, 48, died unexpectedly at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, and an autopsy has been ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles are parked outside of Camp 57 in Angola, Louisiana, on Sep. 3, 2025. The vehicles were set up behind a podium for the announcement of the camp, also known ...

The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a notorious history as a "prison plantation." Louisiana has played a key ...