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 ...

National Black Theatre has officially unveiled its upcoming season. The Alchemy of Return: Remembering is a Radical Act ...

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 district attorney in Mississippi expects the man accused of killing a Loranger mother and her daughter to plead guilty next ...

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 ...

In her first public one-on-one interview since 10 inmates broke out of a city jail just outside downtown New Orleans in May, ...

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 ...