The New Orleans City Council took a symbolic stand Thursday against job discrimination based on workers' felony conviction ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. Credit: AP/Judi Bottoni After court battles earlier this month, attorneys for Hoffman had ...

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 ...

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 ...