A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some of the Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador to return to the U.S at the government’s ...

A team of prison reformists made their final push Tuesday to convince a federal judge to order an end to “degrading and dehiumanizing” labor for field workers on the so-called Farm Line at the state’s ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola became a state-run prison in 1901 when Louisiana purchased the former slave plantation from the family of deceased Confederate Army major Samuel Lawrence ...

Three women are accused of torturing a 6-year-old girl inside their North Carolina home for more than a year until she died in December, when the girl weighed only 27 pounds, according to police.

Sarah Ferguson thanked the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for his friendship in bombshell new emails released as ...

Two years after Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers voted to lengthen dozens of prison sentences for criminal convictions, the governor’s staff says state incarceration expenses are surging. Landry’s ...

Incarcerated fathers and daughters reunite at Angola Prison in Louisiana for a dance that bridges years of separation — hosted by God Behind Bars. Why Congress can't claw back war powers from Trump ...

Geese have quite a reputation when it comes to hissing and being generally aggressive! They can also be extremely protective and vigilant, and it is these very traits that make them excellent as guard ...

A federal judge said a case challenging conditions on a Louisiana prison work assignment can move forward as a class action, opening the door for the lawsuit to impact thousands of incarcerated people ...

For a rodeo built around spectacle and scale, the idea that most captured the imagination of Hondo Rodeo Fest’s founders during their early planning for New Orleans came from a place few outsiders ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Several inmates suspected of making and distributing drugs at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center have been transferred to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to ...