These young people, predominantly Black, have been placed in the prison’s old death row, tucked in behind the razor wire near its front gates. I am intimately familiar with Angola’s old death row.

By the end of that year, by our count at The Angolite, the prison-news magazine where I am an editor, 20 Angola prisoners had died of COVID-19. The oldest had been 84, and the youngest had been 50.

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.

FILE - Vehicles enter the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. In a federal court ...

Juveniles currently housed at the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison in Louisiana will be moved to a youth detention facility by late fall, officials said Friday. Currently 15 ...

Each of the former prison guards were originally indicted on a felony count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and faced up to 20 years in prison.

But for people at the prison commonly referred to as Angola, being sent to the "farm line" is not quite the same as other work assignments, Jones testified in a federal courtroom this week.