WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSLA) — A Shreveport man who spent 30 years in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is fighting ... Farm,” he worked out in the cotton fields. “Every time I was told ...

Angola was once called America’s bloodiest prison. 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 ...

The apparatus used for nitrogen gas executions at Angola prison in Louisiana [Photo: Louisiana state courts] Louisiana ended its 15-year hiatus from state killings with the execution of Jessie ...