Parish President Kenny Havard said he's glad interest in the facility has spurred the state government to begin repairs at ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state emergency to address what he said is lack of capacity to house violent offenders at ...

State of Emergency issued for Louisiana State Penitentiary ‘See You in Court’: Fox News Suffers Another Legal Blow The ...

Kristi Noem recently said she was having conversations with other Republican governors about opening facilities in their ...

Bernard Smith on conditions at Angola as heat alerts persist across the country. Gus Bennett on Essence Fest's rapid ...

The Trump administration is planning to house immigrant detainees in Louisiana State Penitentiary, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest effort to accommodate—and spotlight—its ...

John Brady Balfa is serving a sentence of life imprisonment at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, having been convicted of ...

At the height of summer, prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (colloquially known as Angola) are confined with neither air-conditioning nor reprieve from temperatures topping 130 degrees ...

A 20-foot-tall guard tower from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, is joining the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

Louisiana prisons and the phone companies they contract with have gotten a reprieve from slashing the cost of calls to ...