In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...
Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.
Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...
Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A federal judge heard arguments on a motion to stop using the Farm Line at Louisiana State ...
The largest maximum-security prison in the United States, Angola has 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff. It occupies 28 square miles in Louisiana, a site larger than the size of Manhattan. Eighty-five ...
The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...
That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...
Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend ...