Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state prisons—the rate may now be, at most, 6 cents a minute. That is expected to ...

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

The ministry reports the gospel message was recently shared with nearly 800 inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana.

"Louisiana Considered" showcases South ... insists he was "discovered" by white folklorists while locked up in Angola Prison, a new book is separating fact from fiction. Sheila Curran Bernard ...

Sheila Curran Bernard is the author of “Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies.” She breaks ...