Angola News

While it affects relatively few prisoners, a new bill would correct an old wrong - or at least, a former law that allowed life sentences for habitual offenders in nonviolent crimes.

Locking up more of our citizens than any other place on earth may cost billions, but there are compensations.

Jackie Sumell's captivating exhibit of paper cut-out collages depicting aspects of her brother's life is an exercise in sophisticated sibling-rivalry payback.

Louisiana is the world's leader in jailing criminals , spawning a veritable incarceration industry in this state.

Since Warden Burl Cain arrived at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 1995, inmate assaults on other inmates and staff have decreased dramatically, nearly 70 percent overall.

Shelby Arabie is a killer. That is not in dispute. Twenty-seven years ago, he fired the gun that killed Benny Posey after a high-speed chase that sprang from a botched marijuana deal.

People always said Johna Haynes was lucky because of the white hair that sprouted from the crown of his head since he was a baby.

When the sun sets at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola , the inmates and their guards are sent to the dorms.

Angola Prison Warden Burl Cain talks about overcrowding, high prison sentences and the rising cost of an aging prison population.

ANGOLA, LA - Convicted murderers and armed robbers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola are portraying the lives of Jesus and his disciples.

A state judge granted a reprieve Tuesday to a wolf dog hybrid he ordered destroyed for aggressive behavior, instead "sentencing" the animal to serve a life term as a guard dog in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.