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

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.

Smith had already served two prison terms, in 1983 and 1988, for convictions of lewd acts with a minor. The victims in those cases were allowed to testify in court for the new cases, the DA's ...

Prisoners at Angola must receive special precautions on the 'farm line' in extreme heat above 88 degrees, Judge Brian Jackson ruled. Louisiana increased 'heat alert' thresholds to 91 degrees.

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.

STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) — An Angola man found guilty in a fatal shooting inside an apartment in October 2023 received a 65-year prison sentence Wednesday afternoon. Steuben County ...

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.

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 ...

SIOUX CITY -- A Sioux City man who robbed a Sioux City clothing store was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison. Lonnie Woodhull, 24, pleaded guilty in Woodbury County District Court to second ...

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.

Louisiana's most notorious prison has a new warden who is a familiar face. Darrel Vannoy is returning Nov. 25 to lead the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola after spending the past three years ...

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.