Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...

Angola should have ended the Farm Line long ago ... Warden Timothy Hooper; Director of Prison Enterprises Misty Stagg; the Louisiana Department Of Public Safety and Corrections; and Prison ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

She is a leading national expert on prison and jail conditions who has ... who had worked on Angola’s farm crew during his 30 years there. “There were a few occasions when the field warden ...

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 ...

Two months ago, in a rare move for an inmate not serving a state sentence, Tassin was sent to the state’s maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary. The transfer, classified as an ...