The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

America's most famous prison rodeo returns in 2025 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with a new warden who is very familiar with overseeing what's known as the "Wildest Show in the South." ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A federal judge heard arguments on a motion to stop using the Farm Line at Louisiana State ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is known as “Angola,” the name of the plantation that formerly occupied the land. (Angola is also the name of the African country that was originally home to many ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana found in favor of a class of inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, who have argued since 1992 that the prison’s medical and psychiatric ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...