Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, ...

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

Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is “modern-day slavery.” Advocates say inmates work under dangerous conditions for ...

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

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 prayer ...

The wildest show in the south returns at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with spring shows on Saturday and Sunday, ...

The apparatus used for nitrogen gas executions at Angola prison in Louisiana [Photo: Louisiana state courts] Louisiana ended its 15-year hiatus from state killings with the execution of Jessie ...

The wildest show in the South returns at the Louisiana’s Angola Prison with spring shows set for April. Rodeo action starts ...

Jessie Hoffman will be executed tomorrow evening by nitrogen hypoxia at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. On the night before Thanksgiving Day in 1996, Jessie Hoffman kidnapped, robbed, and ...

Within the walls of Angola, the sprawling state prison complex located deep within rural West Feliciana Parish, the mood among prisoners and staff — particularly those who live and work in prox ...

FILE - Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) An undated photo provided by The Promise of Justice ...