(BRPROUD) — A federal judge heard arguments on a motion to stop using the Farm Line at Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly ...

Angola was once called America’s bloodiest prison. 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 ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

Two months ago, in a rare move for an inmate not serving a state sentence, Tassin was sent to the state’s maximum-security prison, Angola State Penitentiary. The transfer, classified as an ...

“I saw guys collapse,” Gross said of his days on the so-called farm line at Louisiana’s ... America’s largest ...