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

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

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to ...

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

Twenty members of a gang designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States have escaped from detention in Guatemala, a prison chief said Sunday. The members of the Barrio 18 gang ...

President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused of belonging to the Barrio 18 group were found to have escaped undetected.

Twenty members of a gang designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States have escaped from detention in Guatemala, a prison chief said Sunday. The members of the Barrio 18 gang ...

The final Orleans Parish Jail escapee to be captured is back in Louisiana and back behind bars. Derrick Groves is now in the Angola State Penitentiary after authorities returned him to Louisiana from ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is putting criminal illegal migrants on notice with an ad promoting "Louisiana Lockup," a detention facility built inside the nation’s largest maximum-security prison. The ...

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Angola is looking to raise $1.5 billion dollars in its return to international capital markets, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, becoming the latest African ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A man described by the Memphis Police Department (MPD) as a "gang member and violent offender" was sentenced to four years in federal prison, MPD said. A judge handed down that ...