BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A former Angola employee was arrested Monday after being accused of having contraband on penitentiary grounds. According to the Louisiana Department of Public ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said he would prefer to see former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro executed.

Alsaysia Bates, a former LSP corrections sergeant, was arrested for malfeasance in office after contraband cell phones were ...

More than two dozen incarcerated men were invited to participate in the father-daughter dance based on good behavior.

An Angola prison corrections sergeant has been arrested after a search led to the discovery of three cell phones in her ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry alleged Nicolas Maduro, the captured Venezuelan president, played a major role in the ...

West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard said the Angola Prison Rodeo is the community's largest single tourism event.

The transfers follow a series of deaths at the prison, which is located south of Baton Rouge. Seven inmates have died ...

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 ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state emergency to address what he said is lack of capacity to house violent offenders at Louisiana State Penitentiary. His proclamation allows state officials to ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the country’s largest maximum security prison, could soon house immigrant detainees for the Trump administration. Plans call for Angola to reopen an unused ...

Read full article: Light freeze expected for many neighborhoods Wednesday morning ANGOLA, La. – Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a ...