On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...

Angola Prison inmates participate in "convict poker," a signature event at the Angola Prison Rodeo. Supervised inmates will participate in the Hondo Rodeo Fest after organizers gained inspiration at ...

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (KPLC) - Tickets are now on sale for this spring’s Angola Prison Rodeo at the Louisiana State Penitentiary near St. Francisville. The event is set for April 18-19, according to ...

Dooney & Bourke knockoff purses and stainless steel crosses line a long row of picnic tables at the Angola Prison Rodeo craft sale. The artisans wait close behind in a parallel craggy row, separated ...

For a rodeo built around spectacle and scale, the idea that most captured the imagination of Hondo Rodeo Fest’s founders during their early planning for New Orleans came from a place few outsiders ...

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to participate in its prison rodeo, the last remaining in the country. Always ...

This week is one of the months the Angola Prison Rodeo takes place back in the spring Light Switch host Greg LaRose talked to reporter Piper Hutchinson, after she attended the Angola Prison Rodeo. She ...

WEST FELICIANA PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Tickets are now on sale for the annual spring Angola Prison Rodeo in West Feliciana Parish. The rodeo is set for April 18 and April 19, with gates to the arena set ...

A rodeo in Texas is always a big to-do, and Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is perhaps the biggest to be done. Friday, you can hit up the indoor rodeo at 2 and 7:30 p.m. to take in bull riding, barrel ...