A team of prison reformists made their final push Tuesday to convince a federal judge to order an end to “degrading and dehiumanizing” labor for field workers on the so-called Farm Line at the state’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a ...

Reformists have spent the past week arguing that Louisiana’s largest prison violates prisoners’ Eighth Amendment constitutional rights by assigning them to the Angola Farm Line.

(Bloomberg) -- On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of ...

Louisiana's Angola prison, a maximum-security facility infamous for its harsh history, is taking on a new role as an immigrant detention center under a federal-state initiative. Authorities confirmed ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo is the only rodeo in the country where incarcerated men compete in bull riding, buck breaking and other controversial, dangerous events. The Gulf States Newsroom’s Drew Hawkins ...