Parish President Kenny Havard said he's glad interest in the facility has spurred the state government to begin repairs at ...

Kristi Noem recently said she was having conversations with other Republican governors about opening facilities in their ...

SHREVEPORT, La- A Shreveport advocate is speaking out on a lawsuit calling for changes at Louisiana State Penitentiary at ...

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

Louisiana considers using an unused Angola prison wing to detain immigrants, sparking safety and human rights concerns.

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 review panel listened to more than an hour of arguments by attorneys from both sides. No decision was made.

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

They called her "Gruesome Gertie." It was an inmate-given nickname for the electric chair that once sat at the end of a long hallway at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Louisiana officials have removed all of the teens incarcerated at a controversial lockup at the state penitentiary at Angola and relocated them to a new facility in Jackson Parish, officials ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge on Friday ordered that incarcerated youths be removed from a temporary lockup at a former death row building in Louisiana’s adult maximum-security prison by ...