The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

America's most famous prison rodeo returns in 2025 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with a new warden who is very familiar with overseeing what's known as the "Wildest Show in the South." ...

In May, VOTE and eight men currently imprisoned in Angola asked ... Misty Stagg; the Louisiana Department Of Public Safety ...

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 ...

A federal court in Louisiana found in favor of a class of inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, who have argued since 1992 that the prison’s medical and psychiatric health care is so ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is known as “Angola,” the name of the plantation ... and the presence of physical labor on the prison farms. Davis was assigned to work on the farm shortly after ...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from federal prisons for female inmates. The 47th ...