Youth detainees will be moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary next week after almost a year of being incarcerated in the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison. Race and Identity ...

A hearing will start Tuesday on moving juvenile offenders out of the Angola prison in Louisiana. They were supposed to be housed there only until April, but are still there.

A groundbreaking lawsuit representing prisoners forced to work in “inhumane” conditions could finally put an end to Angola ...

Antoine Massey was among ten inmates being held at the New Orleans Justice Center when they broke out of jail on May 16, an ...

More on Angola Prison: ACLU Louisiana emergency filing asserts kids held solitary at state adult prison Meredith G. White is the arts and culture reporter for the Shreveport Times.

Order requires that officials monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. If heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular ...

By the end of that year, by our count at The Angolite, the prison-news magazine where I am an editor, 20 Angola prisoners had died of COVID-19. The oldest had been 84, and the youngest had been 50.

The second-to-last of 10 escapees from a New Orleans jailbreak last month has been recaptured after six weeks on the run, ...

Playwright, actor, activist and educator Liza Jessie Peterson's 2022 short documentary about the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is now available to stream.

Louisiana's most notorious prison has a new warden who is a familiar face. Darrel Vannoy is returning Nov. 25 to lead the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola after spending the past three years ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a story now of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. LEILA FADEL, HOST: It's known as Angola, after the plantation that operated there in the 1800s.

A hearing will start Tuesday on moving juvenile offenders out of the Angola prison in Louisiana. They were supposed to be housed there only until April, but are still there.