Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

the largest prison in the nation. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola Prison, is the size of Manhattan and surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River. Unlike the 3,300 inmates ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

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 ...

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.

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.

At the time of the crime, Hoffman was 18 and has since spent much of his adult life at the penitentiary in rural southeast Louisiana ... On Tuesday afternoon, a small group of execution opponents held ...

The execution, which took place at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola Prison), marks a significant ... sentence of Molly’s assailant to life in prison." Among them was Alison McCrary ...