When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Together, they had around 35,000 signatures. Jessie Hoffman Jr. scheduled to be executed Tuesday at Angola prison. This will ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A federal judge heard arguments on a motion to stop using the Farm Line at Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly called Angola, during the high summer heat in ...

On Tuesday afternoon, a small group of execution opponents held a vigil outside the rural southeast Louisiana prison at Angola, where the state’s executions are carried out. Some passed out ...

An investigation was launched after an inmate's death at the Louisiana State Penitentiary ... teamed up to look into the death of 45-year-old Angola inmate Robert Clark Jr. Sign up for our ...

Sepulvado spent 30 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, The Louisiana Department of Corrections also confirmed the death in a statement saying Sepulvado “died at ...