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 ...

Angola’s largest food producer is working with family farmers to increase yields and decrease the country’s reliance on ...

African cinema is entering a period of tremendous creative expansion. We are seeing bold experimentation in form, genre, and distribution, with filmmakers blending realism, mythology, and futurism in ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three ...

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.

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Orleans Justice Center escapee, Derrick Groves, who was recently recaptured in Atlanta, was arraigned on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Officials with the office of Attorney General Liz ...

“I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had slipped out, perhaps over a period of time. By Annie Correal and Jody García ...