Hours after authorities captured him at a home in New Orleans’s Hollygrove neighborhood, Orleans Parish Jail escapee Antoine ...

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.

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.

Jail escapee Antoine Massey will be held without bond, an Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judge ruled Saturday ...

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

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.

On Sept. 8, Dick ordered the state by Sept. 15 to move youth detainees, mostly Black boys, from the state prison, which is commonly referred to as “Angola” and a former plantation for enslaved ...

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.