Earlier this year, a judge ordered Louisiana to shut down a temporary prison for teens on the site of the State Penitentiary at Angola after attorneys said the youth were being harshly treated and not ...

It’s just common sense that juvenile offenders ought not to be locked up with older inmates in a jail: The last thing anybody wants is for time spent behind bars to inculcate worse behavior in the ...

Indiana authorities say they are investigating after students at an area high school reportedly ate THC edibles on campus.

The idea of holding some juveniles in a hastily renovated lockup at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was intended to be temporary. It has now officially outlasted the patience of a federal ...

On Friday morning, the Sheriff's School Resource Deputy was told that two students had ingested THC on Thursday during the last period of the day.

Louisiana officials are in talks with the Trump administration about housing immigrant detainees at the State Penitentiary at Angola, part of a push to meet the demands of the U.S. president's ...

“The two students involved were in class at the time of the incident and were unaware that the candy they ate contained THC,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote. The candy was inside the classroom and “out in ...

One employee and one visitor have been busted attempting to smuggle drugs into Angola. On June 12, Shakitta Anderson, a 25-year-old Department of Corrections probationary employee, was caught with .7 ...

A fifth drunken driving conviction led Monday to three months in jail followed by five years’ probation for an Angola man. State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia ordered the jail time and ...

LISBON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - An Angolan court on Monday sentenced 17 people to prison sentences of up to three months for their involvement in an anti-government rally on Sept. 3 that resulted in ...

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