Louisiana officials are sending incarcerated teenagers to the notorious Angola prison, where they’re being held on its former death row. Families are suing the state.

AMY GOODMAN: So, let’s go back to your film, Angola Do You Hear Us?, where we hear the words of men incarcerated at Angola prison being read by others to protect their identity.

Prison Break's season 3 is set in a fictional prison that is even more brutal than season 1's Fox River Penitentiary, and it's based on a real prison.

Repairs at a youth prison in north Louisiana slated for completion this spring have been pushed to the fall, state officials said, keeping a controversial juvenile lockup at Angola open ...

Up until Thursday, the administrations of now-former Gov. Kristi Noem and now Rhoden have publicly focused on putting a new men’s prison in rural Lincoln County.

Liza Jessie Peterson's 2022 short documentary about Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, is now available to stream.

Proceeds from the rodeo event go toward paying for reentry programs, which help lower the chance that an inmate will commit another crime after getting out of prison. Click here to report a typo.

ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - A convicted murderer serving a life sentence died Tuesday (April 2) after a fight with three other inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, prison officials said ...

Dozens of juveniles have been held at the maximum security adult prison, where they report conditions of prolonged isolation, extreme heat, and violent assault by staff.

Following a lawsuit detailing inhumane conditions in Louisiana’s largest maximum-security prison, a judge ordered that youths be removed from Angola.

A groundbreaking lawsuit representing prisoners forced to work in “inhumane” conditions could finally put an end to Angola prison’s notorious “Farm Line.” ...

The Louisiana Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an inmate at Angola state prison on the morning of Monday, Feb. 13.