He had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Pennsylvania before being transferred to Louisiana ...

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 ...

The new detention facility inside the prison is designed to hold more than 400 undocumented immigrants convicted of serious crimes.

On a night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1996, Marcus Cheffen robbed Don Allison at gunpoint, shooting him in the leg and ...

Governor Jeff Landry on Monday released a short, cinematic video about the newly opened immigration detention unit at the Louisiana State Penitentiary known informally as “Louisiana Lockup” or Camp 57 ...

President Donald J. Trump's administration is illegally using the ICE detention center to punish immigrants twice for the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The ACLU of Louisiana is condemning the new immigration detention center inside the infamous Angola prison. Attorneys said there is a lack of transparency from government ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -With more than 20 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, Texas leads the nation in the number of such facilities. Following the recent opening of the ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for ...

For Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is “legendary.” “This is a facility ...