She was caught following a body scan at the prison's Treatment Center, which revealed she had two cellphones concealed in her ...

Chief Judge Shelly Dick dismissed the lawsuit in early July, nearly three years after parents moved to stop the state's plans ...

An employee at the State Penitentiary at Angola is in jail and facing numerous felonies after she was allegedly caught trying to smuggle in 1.5 pounds of drugs inside the prison.

Currently 15 youths are housed at Angola, Curtis Nelson Jr., the deputy secretary of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice, said during a public meeting.

A federal appeals panel has upheld blocking the release of Albert Woodfox — the last of the Angola 3, who has been held for more than four decades in solitary confinement in Angola State Prison ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an inmate at Angola state prison on the morning of Monday, Feb. 13. According to officials, Clifton ...

Citing "lost" evidence, fabricated eyewitness testimony, and the Louisiana Department of Corrections' zeal to quickly end its investigation into the 1972 murder of a young prison guard at Angola, a ...

Angola's death row is haunted by its past and purpose. It shouldn't be housing kids. Please, Gov. John Bel Edwards, remove the children from the Louisiana State Penitentiary's old death row and ...

Nation Jul 25. Inmates at Louisiana’s Angola prison sue to end working farm lines in brutal heat. By Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Associated Press ...

Elvis Brooks, 62, of New Orleans, walks out of Angola Penitentiary after spending 42 years there for a murder he insisted he never committed. Brooks left the penitentiary on Wednesday, October 16 ...

“Angola, Can You Hear Us,” recently shortlisted for an Oscar, shines light through both the film and its related activism on the shameful legacy of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, or as it ...

Documentary about Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola available to stream on Paramount+. Meredith G. White, Shreveport Times. Wed, July 19, 2023 at 8:38 PM UTC. 1 min read.