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The fall Angola Prison Rodeo is back each Sunday in October offering the best in prison rodeo excitement.

An early morning fire destroyed a woodshop work area and significantly damaged a trusty dorm at Louisiana State Penitentiary. The fire broke out around 1…

This week, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) terminated former Louisiana State Penitentiary employee Lieutenant Barrett Boeker, and the West…

Monday, Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) correctional officers at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola discovered a pistol during a shakedown…

For the second time in a week, a body scanner at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola detected drugs, and helped prevent smuggling into the prison…

Louisiana State Penitentiary investigators continued their aggressive crackdown on drugs and contraband. A shakedown during Thursday's 5:00 a.m. shift…

A man convicted of a 1982 rape in Louisiana's capital city walked free Thursday after 35 years in prison, following his exoneration using an updated…

Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) investigators at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola arrested a visitor in a shakedown late Saturday…

The Reverend Billy Graham will be laid to rest today in North Carolina. There is a Louisiana connection. The 99-year-old evangelist will be buried in a…

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled state corrections officials do not have to prevent the heat index from going above 88 degrees on Angola’s death…