A federal appellate court this week refused to throw out a ban on housing incarcerated youth at Angola ... the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana ...

Before Jessie Hoffman Jr. enters Louisiana’s execution chamber at Angola, which is expected on ... “That was the attempt of the prison to give the blessing of religion on what was about ...

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 site larger than the size of Manhattan. Eighty-five ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat protections before the upcoming summer.