Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend ...

Louisiana's most notorious prison has a new warden who is a familiar face. Darrel Vannoy is returning Nov. 25 to lead the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola after spending the past three years ...

A lawsuit objecting to conditions on the Louisiana State Penitentiary's "farm line" is among at least three legal challenges ...

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 ...

ANGOLA, La. (BRPROUD) — Every Sunday in October, people can attend the Angola Prison Rodeo, also known as “The Wildest Show ...

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 ...

Billed as the “The Wildest Show in the South,” the Angola Prison Rodeo is returning this fall to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The biannual event draws thousands of spectators, and is held each ...

Some are finally free Five "10/6 lifers" have recently been released after more than 50 years behind bars at Angola Prison in Louisiana. Prison reform advocates pushed for their release after ...

Angola Do You Hear Us Voices from a Plantation Prison tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Petersons 2020 performance of her acclaimed play The Peculiar Patriot at Angola the Louisiana State ...

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 ...