Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will have to wait a ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo, where inmates compete in different classic cowboy events, is set for several dates in October.

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A federal judge visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary Thursday to inspect a former death row building where juvenile detainees are being held in conditions that civil rights advocates say are ...

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 ...

Chief Judge Shelly Dick dismissed the lawsuit in early July, nearly three years after parents moved to stop the state's plans ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) will begin phasing in visitation across its state-run prisons on Monday, October 18, 2021. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

They called her "Gruesome Gertie." It was an inmate-given nickname for the electric chair that once sat at the end of a long hallway at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La.

Louisiana lawmakers are taking a new look at privatizing management of five more state prisons.The House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice on Wednesday (May 10) sent the full House a ...

Louisiana’s oldest death row inmate dies 3 weeks before he was to be state’s first execution in 15 years - “Give me a little time,” Christopher Sepulvado’s ex, who also served time for ...

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