An inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary has died, and an autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death.

A federal judge ruled that the Louisiana State Penitentiary's "Farm Line" program violated the rights of incarcerated workers ...

A federal judge has finally ruled two years after a lawsuit challenged the dangerous and "inhumane" work conditions inside ...

An imminent federal ruling could leave Angola’s Farm Line intact. Or it could deeply reshape daily work assignments for hundreds of incarcerated men. [...]Read More... from A Farm Line ruling could re ...

Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the “farm line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at ...

In his ruling, Judge Brian Jackson said he was constrained from ruling the Farm Line as a cruel and unusual punishment. But, ...

ANGOLA, La. – Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has confirmed multiple inmate deaths at the state’s largest prison so far this year. According to the ...

Update: Two days after this statement, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections released a statement saying accusations about a hunger strike, inadequate health care and a lack of ...

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 ...