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

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

Michael T. Stevens, a notorious murderer who used mail bombs to kill five people in Western New York in 1993, has died in the ...

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

STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – A man who claimed he’d been talking to a witch days before a shooting likely fueled by paranoia ...

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

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 wife of an American missionary murdered in Angola has been arrested in his killing, the couple's church has announced.

Darrel Vannoy is returning to the Louisiana State Penitentiary to serve as warden, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections announced in a news release Tuesday. Vannoy retired from ...

Kissinger, who has spent the last 27 years in prison, mostly at Angola, for murder, “is widely regarded as a positive leader at Angola by both prisoners and staff,” the lawsuit says. The information ...