A groundbreaking lawsuit representing prisoners forced to work in “inhumane” conditions could finally put an end to Angola ...

Order requires that officials monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. If heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular ...

Angola's death row is haunted by its past and purpose. It shouldn't be housing kids. Please, Gov. John Bel Edwards, remove the children from the Louisiana State Penitentiary's old death row and ...

Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend their wares at market rate: a rodeo.

Buildings near the entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The prison is in a remote area near the state's border with Mississippi. Google Maps.

The Angola Prison Rodeo is the only rodeo in the country where incarcerated men compete in bull riding, buck breaking and other controversial, dangerous events. The Gulf States Newsroom’s Drew ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Yesterday was the first day of a multi-day emergency hearing in which attorneys representing children — nearly all Black boys — incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, ...

Nicknamed "The Wildest Show in the South," the Angola Prison Rodeo is the longest-running prison rodeo and first began in 1965. It's grown from a 4,500-person arena to a 10,000-person arena.

A 2015 lawsuit by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and a federal judge’s opinion last year detailed evidence of extensive failures in the prison’s medical care.

Louisiana prisoners picking cotton at Angola, the plantation turned state penitentiary, circa 1900. (Andrew David Lytle Sr./State Library of Louisiana) ...