BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A federal judge heard arguments on a motion to stop using the Farm Line at Louisiana State ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is known as “Angola,” the name of the plantation that formerly occupied the land. (Angola is also the name of the African country that was originally home to many ...

The largest maximum-security prison in the United States, Angola has 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff. It occupies 28 square miles in Louisiana, a site larger than the size of Manhattan. Eighty-five ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana found in favor of a class of inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, who have argued since 1992 that the prison’s medical and psychiatric ...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from federal prisons for female inmates. The 47th ...

Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend ...

He is exceptional in so many ways and an artist who learned about life and making art in the strangest of places: Angola Prison in Louisiana. When you meet Tyler today, you would not know he'd ...

After being cut from a concrete base, the guard tower is ready for its ride from Louisiana to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC Explore Subscribe Newsletters ...