Like country songs, blues songs never get any sadder than they do in prison. And there is no harder time done than that which is done at Angola State Penitentiary. It’s a musical sadness, however, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Another inmate has died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office (WFPSO) confirmed it is investigating the “unexpected death ...

A federal judge said a case challenging conditions on a Louisiana prison work assignment can move forward as a class action, opening the door for the lawsuit to impact thousands of incarcerated people ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether use of force was a factor in an inmate’s death at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Deputies were ...

Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the "farm line" at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — including laboring outdoors in extreme heat — a federal judge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A federal judge decided that the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, violated the ...

ANGOLA — Two inmates fatally overdosed in Angola State Penitentiary on Thursday morning, 20th Judicial District Attorney's Office Samuel C. D’Aquilla said. The Department of Corrections said the two ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...

An Angola inmate, 33-year-old Patrick Jones, died on Tuesday, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said. His death is the second inmate death in a week at the Louisiana State ...

ANGOLA — An inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary has died, Louisiana Department of Corrections officials said Monday. Walter Davis, a 37-year-old Angola inmate, was pronounced dead on Sunday, ...

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He ...