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

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

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

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

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

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

At the height of summer, prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (colloquially known as Angola) are confined with neither air-conditioning nor reprieve from temperatures topping 130 degrees ...

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.

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La.

At Louisiana State Penitentiary, known colloquially as Angola, incarcerated people clean the prison, cook for fellow inmates, farm vegetables for the corrections department, help sick people as ...

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.