On a blistering fall afternoon, even by Louisiana’s standards, mainly Black incarcerated people cling tightly to bucking ...

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 ...

Although many Angola inmates have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment, many are not violent criminals. Some of them were sentenced to life in prison for minor thefts, in one case for $14 ...

James Blackburn, who is serving a life sentence for murder, walks with his horse while his grandson Leo Papiska rides during the Angola Prison Rodeo on April 23, 2023, in Louisiana.(Brendan ...

The high cost of a prison phone call has come down. But a new report sounds the alarm on the escalating costs of non-phone services for incarcerated people. Why dozens of men spent most of their ...

It’s at Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly called Angola Prison. Prisoners volunteer to participate and make it come to life. Kevin Gildhouse has been behind bars since 2009. “I got a life ...

In the nightmare, Chadarius Morehead is in the field at Louisiana State Penitentiary, the prison better known as Angola. It is dark. He sees an armed prison guard, who orders him to bend down and ...

(Angola Prison/Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News ... This led to a drastic change in legislation around youth rehabilitation and a spike in life without parole sentences for minors, especially for ...