The president has also called for the original Alcatraz—the famed island prison that was turned into a top tourist attraction ...

Parish President Kenny Havard said he's glad interest in the facility has spurred the state government to begin repairs at ...

The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with Louisiana officials to send immigrant detainees to the Louisiana State ...

Kristi Noem recently said she was having conversations with other Republican governors about opening facilities in their ...

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

Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state emergency to address what he said is lack of capacity to house violent offenders at ...

SHREVEPORT, La- A Shreveport advocate is speaking out on a lawsuit calling for changes at Louisiana State Penitentiary at ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, seen here in a 2009 photo, has been rocked by a string of scandals involving alleged self-dealing by prison employees. Two longtime employees resigned ...

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.

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.

Angola's death row is haunted by its past and purpose. It shouldn't be housing kids. Please, Gov. John Bel Edwards, remove the children from the Louisiana State Penitentiary's old death row and ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a story now of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. LEILA FADEL, HOST: It's known as Angola, after the plantation that operated there in the 1800s.