Angola death row haunted by its history – and its purpose. My home state of Louisiana consistently lurks near the bottom when it comes to all measurements of child well-being, ...

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 ...

Children in the custody of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice being held in a former death row building at an adult prison are suffering dangerous heat conditions and routine isolation in ...

Louisiana begins moving child inmates to notorious Angola prison’s former death row unit. Posters reading ‘keep trying’ and ‘caring is thinking for your heart’ cover old markers of ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary, the Angola Prison, in Angola, La., April 22, 2009. [AP Photo/Judi Bottoni] Last month, on July 17, as part of an ongoing federal class action lawsuit against the ...

In contrast, while on Angola’s former death row, children are held in single-occupancy, barred, windowless cells that have a metal sink and toilet.There is no privacy for using the toilet or ...

A prisoner's hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana on October 14, 2013. Photo by Giles Clarke via Getty Images. The state of Louisiana is considering transferring at ...

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La.

Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, who has been on death row for 27 years, was declared innocent by a judge in April 2023, but remains ...

Sepulvado was set to be executed March 17, but he died of natural causes over the weekend at Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola. He was surrounded by his children, including Jeremy ...

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana was executed by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, marking the state’s first death row killing in 15 years — and the first time the lethal method was used ...

A death row inmate who had spent more than 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola has died of an illness. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man ...