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 ...

In his Nov. 3 brief, Rhorer contends Souvannarath stayed in the United States for 19 years after his removal order without ...

(Gray Louisiana) - Governor Jeff Landry on Monday released a short, cinematic video about the newly opened immigration detention unit at the Louisiana State Penitentiary known informally as “Louisiana ...

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 ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Governor Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency to fast-track urgent repairs at Camp J, a maximum-security unit within the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola ...

An Oneida County jury began hearing testimony Tuesday at trial of three former correction officers implicated in beating death of Robert L. Brooks Former state Correction Officer Mathew Galliher, ...

I’ve always been drawn to the quiet mystery of abbeys — in books, in travel, and even here in Louisiana. Until earlier this month I had never been to St. Joseph Abbey near Covington. All I knew about ...