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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

Brandon Jermaine Francisco, 39, of Mansura, pleaded guilty in federal court Nov. 13 to committing a carjacking resulting in ...

Louisiana lawmakers will soon be able to demand citizens remove internet posts containing the officials’ personal information ...