A court hearing in Baton Rouge provided a rare window into working conditions on Louisiana State Penitentiary's "farm line," ...

By the late 1800s, Louisiana bought the Angola plantation, converting it into a prison. On a typical day at Angola, a former plantation turned prison behemoth, inmates grind through brutal labor ...

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“It definitely felt like something that had happened so long ago,” she says, sitting at the dining room table in her plantation-style home off Rue ... had been pursuing a political science degree at ...

In Louisiana, all was not well before the Civil War. Or after the war either. But the sugar-coating around slavery is finally over for some of the great plantation houses of the state. I was ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. In Louisiana, all was not well before the Civil War. Or after the war either. But the sugar-coating ...

While prison officials and Farm Line workers disagree about whether the incarcerated workers have all the shade and water ...

WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - A slide in crude oil prices is increasing the likelihood that Angola will need an International Monetary Fund loan, Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa told ...