The Mississippi Department of Corrections opened its newest chapel for inmates. The white church features a tall steeple with ...

A groundbreaking lawsuit representing prisoners forced to work in “inhumane” conditions could finally put an end to Angola ...

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

A Rastafarian inmate claims his rights were violated when Louisiana prison officials forcibly cut his dreadlocks ...

JPSO deputies partner with Delgado College for criminal justice degrees and visited Angola prison for educational insights.

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New Orleans artist and activist jackie sumell’s nonprofit, Freedom to Grow, takes a plant-powered approach to encourage ...

Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.

The Adams County Board of Supervisors urged Robbie Dollar, county road department manager, to try to tap into inmate help ...

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full.

Derrick Groves, one of five Orleans Parish jail escapees, urged by his aunt to surrender. Sheriff Hutson suspends re-election campaign amid security concerns.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. In roughly nine years since he first came to Louisiana State Penitentiary, Patrick Jones has picked corn, okra, cabbage and beans by hand. He’s cut grass.