While the event has been criticized for its controversial and dangerous events, it also offers a chance for participants to ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we discuss a current lawsuit involving Angola Farm Line workers fighting against harsh working ...

Long Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse said the complex stands on the same land that once held Louisiana's state penitentiary before the prison moved to Angola around 1917. Black and white ...

This week’s episode of “The Light Switch” focuses entirely on the Angola Prison Rodeo, now in its 60th year at Louisiana ...

The annual Angola Prison Rodeo ... highlights of the year for the hundreds of men incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary who participate in the events. Despite its controversies ...

Retired Louisiana State troopers Carl Barnum, Robert Ricks and Charles Sullivan shared their memories of Camp-Win-A-Friend, ...

Adams was found guilty of murdering a New Orleans police officer’s wife in 1980 and sentenced to hard labor at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. He said he witnessed things there he ...

FILE - Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his ...

This week’s episode of “The Light Switch” focuses entirely on the Angola Prison Rodeo, now in its 60th year at Louisiana State Penitentiary. While the rest of the state is deep into its ...