Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, ...

This month crowds from across the nation will gather to witness a raw, gladiator-style spectacle - the last prison rodeo in ...

The wildest show in the south returns at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with spring shows on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27 in St. Francisville.

Formerly incarcerated couple turned criminal justice reform advocates have released their Academy Award-nominated documentary ...

The New Orleans City Council took a symbolic stand Thursday against job discrimination based on workers' felony conviction ...

Thank you for your excellent reporting on the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18 by the state of Louisiana at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I have been visiting Angola for over ...

The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

The victim's loved ones stormed out of a Baton Rouge courtroom as a judge ordered yet another delay in the trial.

When the state executed Jessie Hoffman at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, it wasn't the first time Louisiana killed someone by execution. Robert Wayne Williams was executed in ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP ... Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorities said, adding the nitrogen gas had flowed for 19 minutes during ...

Neil Duhon blames archdiocese for allowing his rapist, Father Lawrence Hecker, to prey on children throughout his career ...