Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend ...

Louisiana's most notorious prison has a new warden who is a familiar face. Darrel Vannoy is returning Nov. 25 to lead the ...

The high cost of a prison phone call has come down. But a new report sounds the alarm on the escalating costs of non-phone services for incarcerated people. Why dozens of men spent most of their ...

the prison better known as Angola. It is dark. He sees an armed prison guard, who orders him to bend down and pick a vegetable. He says no. The guard shoots. "I've woken in a cold sweat ...

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (BRPROUD) – The fall Angola Prison Rodeo is back and taking place each Sunday in October. The rodeo ...

Archie Williams was sentenced to life for a crime he didn't commit and served 35 years in prison before he was exonerated. He ...

Billed as the “The Wildest Show in the South,” the Angola Prison Rodeo is returning this fall to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The biannual event draws thousands of spectators, and is held each ...

ANGOLA, La. (BRPROUD) — Every Sunday in October, people can attend the Angola Prison Rodeo, also known as “The Wildest Show in the South.” The event has food, shopping and a lot of fun.

He is exceptional in so many ways and an artist who learned about life and making art in the strangest of places: Angola Prison in Louisiana. When you meet Tyler today, you would not know he'd ...

A lawsuit objecting to conditions on the Louisiana State Penitentiary's "farm line" is among at least three legal challenges ...