Once known as the bloodiest prison in the country, Angola is a maximum security facility with a dark history—and a popular ...

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

Louisiana prisons and the phone companies they contract with have gotten a reprieve from slashing the cost of calls to inmates after the Federal Communications Commission postponed a rule it issued ...

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to send migrants to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, known as one ...

Eunice Cho, senior counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, slammed the idea of sending ...

A Walker man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he was found guilty of killing a man from Ponchatoula in 2023.

This information was initially collected as individual-level data by state reporting agencies and sent to the Bureau of ...

Family members of Alexis Cardenas, Jaleen Anderson, Evan Lee and Erik Carlson confronted Gonzalez in Austin after he attended a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting.

A Louisiana man who admitted on live television to murdering a woman and her young daughter pleaded guilty to federal charges ...

Two women accused of aiding in the Orleans jail escape are set to be arraigned. One fugitive, Derrick Groves, remains on the ...

A woman who was arrested and accused of helping three escaped inmates in New Orleans was in court Thursday where she entered a plea. Daishanae Massey is accused of helping escaped inmates Antoine ...

L.A. County supervisors say they're open to the idea of a receiver taking over control of the troubled juvenile halls. But ...