Advocacy groups involved in a federal lawsuit over prison labor at Angola plan a press conference to discuss dangerous work ...

Reformists have spent the past week arguing that Louisiana’s largest prison violates prisoners’ Eighth Amendment constitutional rights by assigning them to the Angola Farm Line.

Advocacy groups involved in a federal lawsuit over prison labor at Angola held a press conference in Baton Rouge. Wall Street ...

A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive ...

Advocacy groups involved in a federal lawsuit over prison labor at Angola held a press conference to discuss dangerous work ...

The number of inmates in state custody has gone up by about 2,000 in the two years since the Louisiana Legislature passed a ...

A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...

After hard work in the sun on the Farm Line, he’d fall asleep, only to be visited by nightmares, Chadarius Morehead testified on Thursday, in the ongoing federal trial that will determine the ...

Rodger Daily Strong served as a church pastor in Orland for 40 years, got arrested the day after he retired and started a ...

A 35-year-old inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary is dead after allegedly being stabbed by another inmate during a fight.

Makes me feel a tad guilty about my own on-hold writing projects awaiting my attention outside this weekly screed. One recent communique came from a friend struggling with such a project. She had ...