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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samuel Urbino Jr., 28, of Herr Road, Angola, was ordered Thursday to serve a 45-day jail term by Cheektowaga Town Justice Paul S. Piotrowski on Urbino’s guilty plea to a reduced charge of attempted ...