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

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — After Governor Jeff Landry introduced “The Louisiana Lockup” at Angola, which is set to house over 200 criminals in the country illegally, many community ...

Federal officials say they want to send a message, and they chose one of the most notorious prisons in the United States to deliver it. On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KSLA) - The Department of Homeland Security has released the names and criminal histories of 51 individuals detained at Louisiana Lockup, the new federal immigration detention center ...

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

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

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it is opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility at Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. The new ICE ...