The executive order, effective from July 25 through Aug. 23, suspends procurement and bidding rules to allow swift repairs to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Governor Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency to fast-track urgent repairs at Camp J, a ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared an emergency to make repairs possible for the Camp J unit at the Louisiana State ...

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

Men incarcerated within Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola want relief from the prison’s extreme heat and overcrowding.

In a new memoir called "Jailhouse Lawyer," New Orleans native Calvin Duncan chronicles his remarkable evolution as an ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo, where inmates compete in different classic cowboy events, is set for several dates in October.

Chief Judge Shelly Dick dismissed the lawsuit in early July, nearly three years after parents moved to stop the state's plans.

Following a lawsuit detailing inhumane conditions in Louisiana’s largest maximum-security prison, a judge ordered that youths be removed from Angola.

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.

Officials plan to temporarily move about 25 teenagers from the Bridge City Center for Youth to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — a move that shows the dire situation ...

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.