Calvin Duncan was cleared of murder after he became a legal authority in prison. In New Orleans, his campaign for clerk of ...

The Angolite, the inmate edited prison news magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, La., became, while inmate ...

An exhibition of Tyler’s quilts captures scenes of humanity from within the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary.

ANGOLA, La. — On a December night in 1991, the man who would later play Jesus committed a string of armed robberies in New Orleans. Ten years later, the woman who would play the Virgin Mary robbed a ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of America’s most ...

The contest pits incumbent Darren Lombard against Calvin Duncan, a formerly incarcerated man who spent more than 28 years ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...

In 1971 and 1972, Bill Walsh co-chaired a prison reform committee, which was established by former Gov. Richard Kneip. At the time, Walsh was an active Catholic priest and chaplain at the state ...