The Mississippi Department of Corrections opened its newest chapel for inmates. The white church features a tall steeple with ...

An iron gate opens to the prison chapel Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at Louisiana State Penitentiary. The chapel's new 2,600-pound bell came from an Arkansas church, where it fell during installation ...

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

Hardy.jpg. Rev. Jerial Hardy, an inmate pastor, preaches to his Assembly of God congregation at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola's Main Prison on May 16, 2015.

Unlocking the potential of the church within Angola prison. If I told you there was a place where the church was growing dramatically—conversions followed by baptisms and discipleship, red-hot ...

Photo by MARK H. HUNTER -- Jerail C. Hardy, recently released from Angola prison, gives his testimony of redemption to the Young at Heart group at Healing Place Church recently.

Louisiana correctional officials have agreed to take a Bible citation and a prayer off a monument near the entrance to the state penitentiary at Angola. Here's the story from Religious News ...

The prison population was graying, and not just at Angola. According to federal statistics , from 1991 to 2021, the percentage of state and federal inmates 55 and older grew from 3% to 15%.

U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson requires Angola prison officials to monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. When heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular breaks, ice, water, and shade, the ...

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.

The cemetery at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, is for prisoners who don't have families that can give them a burial. Hospice began at Angola in 1997, when 85% of inmates ...

And so, when it became a prison — and this is 18,000 acres of farmland. When it became a prison, it kept the nickname Angola. And so, the link of that history, I think, is just very telling.