Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to ...

Every April and October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts the last remaining prison rodeo in the nation. Brining ...

On a night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1996, Marcus Cheffen robbed Don Allison at gunpoint, shooting him in the leg and ...

A survivor tells his experience of being jailed in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, while officials and experts look at ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) welcomed a new class of 14 adult corrections officers (ACOs) in a ceremony Friday. The new ACOs will now begin ...

Calvin Duncan, an uncommon man with an all-too-common story, is vying to become clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District ...

"This marks the conclusion of a coordinated, multi-agency effort that spanned several states," Louisiana State Police said.

New Orleans jail escapee Derrick Groves, who spent nearly five months on the run before being recaptured in Georgia, agreed to be returned to Louisiana during an appearance before a Fulton ...

President Donald J. Trump's administration is illegally using the ICE detention center to punish immigrants twice for the same crime, the lawsuit says.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The immigration detainees sent to a notorious Louisiana prison last month are being punished for crimes for which they have already served time, the American Civil Liberties ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison. A ...