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

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared an emergency to make repairs possible for the Camp J unit at the Louisiana State ...

The order would help the prison reopen notorious 'Camp J,' once one of the most restrictive segments of Angola.

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

Landry issued the executive order due to the lack of beds for violent offenders who need to be housed in the highest security ...

The executive order, effective from July 25 through Aug. 23, suspends procurement and bidding rules to allow swift repairs to ...

Men incarcerated within Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola want relief from the prison’s extreme heat and overcrowding.

Chief Judge Shelly Dick dismissed the lawsuit in early July, nearly three years after parents moved to stop the state's plans.

Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will soon find out if ...

A 20-foot-tall guard tower from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, is joining the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

But Louisiana has had budget shortfalls consistently since 2009. To tighten its belt, the state downgraded the Winn and Allen sites from certified prisons to jails in 2016.

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) will begin phasing in visitation across its state-run prisons on Monday, October 18, 2021.