Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year, the Louisiana State Penitentiary holds its Angola Prison Rodeo, which has been hosted annually since 1965. The rodeo ...

West Feliciana's parish population doubles with tourists on Angola Prison Rodeo weekends.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Plaintiffs in a lawsuit over Angola's "Farm Line" program seek a federal district court's ...

Judge Brian Jackson of the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana has certified a class in a lawsuit against Angola Prison on behalf of men forced to perform punitive farm labor under ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The wildest show in the South returns at the Louisiana’s Angola Prison with spring shows set for April. Rodeo action starts at 2 p.m. on April 26 and 27, ...

A federal judge has again ordered prison officials to protect incarcerated men from heat on a work detail at Louisiana's largest prison, finding the men are at "substantial risk of suffering serious ...

The Trump administration is planning to house immigrant detainees in a notorious Louisiana prison, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest effort to accommodate—and spotlight—its ...

A federal judge said a case challenging conditions on a Louisiana prison work assignment can move forward as a class action, opening the door for the lawsuit to impact thousands of incarcerated people ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...

Each year, the Louisiana State Penitentiary holds its Angola Prison Rodeo, which has been hosted annually since 1965. The rodeo features inmates who have volunteered to compete in events, as well as a ...