Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

After years of juvenile detention, a repeat offender now faces adult prison time—raising questions about the system’s failures and ignored warning signs.

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

The BBC has asked the Angolan government to comment. But according to a source from the Migration and Aliens Service (SME), ...

(Bruce Jackson via AP) This 1975 photo shows prisoners picking cotton at the Arkansas State Penitentiary Cummins Unit prison farm in Varner, Ark. (Bruce Jackson via AP) This 2004 photo shows prisoners ...

An Angola man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after being involved in an accident that took the life of a child. According ...

Markus R. Genovese, 53, of Angola, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of an 8-year-old passenger following a ...

STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WPTA) - A 52-year-old Angola man was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison for child molestation. BACKGROUND: 52-year-old Angola man found guilty of molesting 5-year-old girl ...

A South Texas immigration detention facility has been repurposed by the Trump administration to hold families.

New Orleans-based photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have been documenting life inside the Louisiana State ...

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