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

Rapper Lil Woody has claimed that he saw Derrick Groves in an Atlanta nightclub before the prison escapee was apprehended ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo returns this weekend, kicking off Sunday, October 5, and continuing every Sunday throughout October. It's known as the "Wildest Show in the South" and held at the Louisiana ...

Detainees report prison-like conditions inside the California City facility and lack of access to medical care. Advocates are ...

The lawsuit claims detainees are being punished twice for crimes they already served time for, in violation of the ...

Orleans Justice Center escapee, Derrick Groves, who was recently recaptured in Atlanta, was arraigned on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

He had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Pennsylvania before being transferred to Louisiana State Penitentiary. Amaya arrived at Angola sometime after Sept. 4, when ICE ...

Authorities said the immigration detainees would be isolated from Angola’s thousands of civil prisoners, many of whom are ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s new ad promotes "Louisiana Lockup," a migrant detention facility inside a maximum-security ...

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

Acts of protest from people behind detention walls have never stopped. In the coming decades, migrants have demanded that lawyers and immigrant rights organizations hear and document their stories, ...

In May, 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans, highlighting the facility’s chronic problems. Derrick Groves was at ...