More than two dozen incarcerated men were invited to participate in the father-daughter dance based on good behavior.

Knows America," David Begnaud takes "CBS Mornings" inside Angola State Penitentiary, the largest maximum security prison in ...

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of Albert Woodfox, the last imprisoned member of the Angola 3, from a Louisiana prison. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that a ...

The transfers follow a series of deaths at the prison, which is located south of Baton Rouge. Seven inmates have died ...

West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard said the Angola Prison Rodeo is the community's largest single tourism event.

Retired Chaplain Nolan Fontenot was honored by fellow pastors and current and former inmates Dec. 13 at an event held at the ...

BATON ROUGE — Two Louisiana State Penitentiary inmates were found dead from suspected drug overdoses Wednesday night at the notorious prison in Angola, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Robert King plans to be there if and when his friend Albert Woodfox is released from behind bars after more than four decades in solitary confinement. King and Woodfox are the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Four former Angola Prison supervisory correctional officers were sentenced Thursday for assaulting a shackled and handcuffed inmate who was not resisting. The officers, 43 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — For the first time ever, a dance involving inmates and their daughters took place inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary. 29 inmates participated in the dance ...

During Louisiana’s sweltering summer months, everyone seeks respite from the blistering sun in any way they can. We take precautions to protect our pets, crank up the air conditioning and limit ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...