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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.
Weeks after a federal judge ordered teen prisoners removed from an old death row building at the State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana's Department of Corrections is using that facility to house ...
ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - A convicted murderer serving a life sentence died Tuesday (April 2) after a fight with three other inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, prison officials said.
Weeks after a federal judge ordered teen prisoners removed from an old death row building at the State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana's Department of Corrections is using that facility to house ...
NOW. AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY AFTER AN INMATE DIED AT THE LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY. 45 YEAR OLD ANGOLA INMATE ROBERT CLARK JUNIOR WAS KILLED ON TUESDAY. OFFICIALS SAY CLARK WAS INVOLVED IN ...
The first prisoner to die was 69 years old, a wheelchair ... not wearing theirs. The prison where I live—the Louisiana State Penitentiary, colloquially known as Angola—went quiet in those ...
A nine-year-old lawsuit alleges lack of proper medical care for inmates at Angola Prison. Months ago, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick issued an opinion ordering the state to fix its quote ...