An inmate who died the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola Saturday afternoon was maced and subdued by officers before ...

Lafayette inmate Harold Brooks died in Angola after an altercation with officers. Sheriff Spillman says a cardiac event is ...

Incarcerated fathers and daughters reunite at Angola Prison in Louisiana for a dance that bridges years of separation — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louisiana Lockup is replacing Forida's Alligator Alcatraz as President Trump sends immigrants to the state's notorious Angola ...

Two years after Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers voted to lengthen dozens of prison sentences for criminal convictions, ...

An Angola prison employee has been arrested on multiple felony charges after investigators say she brought a large amount of narcotics into the state penitentiary ...

ANGOLA, La. — A section of Louisiana’s most notorious prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, has a new name and purpose. The former "Camp J" is now called "Louisiana Lockup," a U.S.

MAGA world is yet again trying to market a prison where it will lock up people targeted by the president’s bigoted anti-immigrant crackdown. First, there was “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility in the ...

Dooney & Bourke knockoff purses and stainless steel crosses line a long row of picnic tables at the Angola Prison Rodeo craft sale. The artisans wait close behind in a parallel craggy row, separated ...

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 ...