BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, ...

The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a notorious history as a "prison plantation." Louisiana has played a key ...

At the sprawling Louisiana prison, inmates clad in black and white stripes go toe-to-toe with horses and bulls at a unique rodeo now in its 57th year.

(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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Juveniles currently housed at the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison in Louisiana will be moved to a youth detention facility by late fall, officials said Friday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — After Governor Jeff Landry introduced “The Louisiana Lockup” at Angola, which is set to house over 200 criminals in the country illegally, many community ...

NEW ORLEANS—The last inmate of a group known as the “Angola Three” has pleaded no contest to manslaughter and a lesser offence in the 1972 death of a prison guard and is expected to be released Friday ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit ...