A three-member panel of Louisiana’s parole board granted medical release Wednesday to a quadriplegic prisoner who is currently suing the state over health care conditions at the Louisiana State ...

Angola Prison could soon be part of the Trump administration's massive immigration enforcement system. Why it matters: The ...

A prison guard rides a horse alongside prisoners as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., on Aug. 18, 2011. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Jackson ...

FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008.

Youth detainees will be moved from the Louisiana State Penitentiary next week after almost a year of being incarcerated in the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison.

Angola's death row is haunted by its past and purpose. It shouldn't be housing kids. Please, Gov. John Bel Edwards, remove the children from the Louisiana State Penitentiary's old death row and ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a story now of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. LEILA FADEL, HOST: It's known as Angola, after the plantation that operated there in the 1800s.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, seen here in a 2009 photo, has been rocked by a string of scandals involving alleged self-dealing by prison employees. Two longtime employees resigned ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. Bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River, the prison work farm is nicknamed the Alcatraz of the South.

They called her "Gruesome Gertie." It was an inmate-given nickname for the electric chair that once sat at the end of a long hallway at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Parish President Kenny Havard said he's glad interest in the facility has spurred the state government to begin repairs at ...

The order would help the prison reopen notorious 'Camp J,' once one of the most restrictive segments of Angola.