In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Angola was once called America’s bloodiest prison. The largest maximum-security prison in the United States, Angola has 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff. It occupies 28 square miles in Louisiana, a ...

ANGOLA, La. (BRPROUD) — Every Sunday in October, people can attend the Angola Prison Rodeo, also known as “The Wildest Show ...

Arthur Basaldua, 44, from Angola, received a 192-month federal prison sentence. He was convicted of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, heroin, marijuana and ...

After being cut from a concrete base, the guard tower is ready for its ride from Louisiana to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC Explore Subscribe Newsletters ...

He is exceptional in so many ways and an artist who learned about life and making art in the strangest of places: Angola Prison in Louisiana. When you meet Tyler today, you would not know he'd ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...