I visited and ministered to men condemned to die in the very same cell block. ... remove kids from Angola: An infamous adult prison is no place for incarcerated kids. Get it together, Louisiana.

Louisiana State Penitentiary, the Angola Prison, in Angola, La., April 22, 2009. [AP Photo/Judi Bottoni] Last month, on July 17, as part of an ongoing federal class action lawsuit against the ...

The state sent eight kids as young as 14 to the notorious Angola prison last year and put them in a cell block that once held people awaiting the death penalty. ... also known as Angola Prison after ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has decided not to block the state’s plan to move two dozen troubled juvenile offenders from a suburban New Orleans detention center to the Louisiana ...

They are serving life sentences at Angola prison, in rural Louisiana, with little to no hope for release. Many are elderly; they have not seen the outside world, or their families, for decades.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has decided not to block the state’s plan to move two dozen troubled juvenile offenders from a suburban New Orleans detention center to the Louisiana ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has decided not to block the state’s plan to move two dozen troubled juvenile offenders from a suburban New Orleans detention center to the Louisiana ...