BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A former Angola employee was arrested Monday after being accused of having contraband on penitentiary grounds. According to the Louisiana Department of Public ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said he would prefer to see former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro executed.

An Angola prison corrections sergeant has been arrested after a search led to the discovery of three cell phones in her ...

West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard said the Angola Prison Rodeo is the community's largest single tourism event.

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the country’s largest maximum security prison, could soon house immigrant detainees for the Trump administration. Plans call for Angola to reopen an unused ...

Angola, Louisiana (CNN) — The Trump administration is opening a new detention camp within a notorious state prison in Louisiana to house undocumented migrants accused of committing crimes, officials ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Leslie Harris has missed most milestones in his daughter's life while serving a decades-long sentence in Louisiana for armed robbery and is unlikely to get out before her prom, ...

Louisiana prisons and the phone companies they contract with have gotten a reprieve from slashing the cost of calls to inmates after the Federal Communications Commission postponed a rule it issued ...

Voting rights group says Parish Prison inmates, yet to be convicted of a felony, should be allowed to cast absentee ballots ...