Jimmy Duncan was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary death row after Judge Alvin Sharp granted him bail, setting it at ...

The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether a former Louisiana inmate can sue prison officials who shaved his dreadlocks in ...

A prisoners' rights group is challenging the constitutionality of an agricultural labor program at Louisiana's notorious Angola prison.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- 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 Union ...

ANGOLA, La. — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

Calvin Duncan spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Last week, he won the election for clerk of court in New Orleans Parish, a role he calls his dream job.

A inmate in Louisiana is on the run after allegedly throwing a chemical substance at an officer and escaping from jail, ...

The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Department said two inmates broke out after a "brief struggle," during which a chemical substance was thrown at a police officer's face.