NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Former New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, 93, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday (Dec.

The largest maximum-security prison in the United States, Angola has 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff. It occupies 28 square miles in Louisiana, a site larger than the size of Manhattan. Eighty-five ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary – also known as Angola Prison after the plantation it replaced – is the largest maximum ... This led to a drastic change in legislation around youth rehabilitation and a ...

who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison ... of hours' drive from his grandmother's house. Louisiana State Penitentiary is known as “Angola,” the name of the plantation that formerly ...

“It is hard to overstate how life-threatening the combination of forced labor, high heat, and Angola’s ... Director of Prison ...

In this week's column, Peter Finney Jr. interviews Byron Johnson, director of Baylor University's Institute for Studies of ...

It’s at Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly called Angola Prison. Prisoners volunteer to participate and make it come to life. Kevin Gildhouse has been behind bars since 2009. “I got a life ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana found in favor of a class of inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, who have argued since 1992 that the prison’s medical and psychiatric ...

He was released in February 2016, but says he is still adapting to life outside. He had been in solitary confinement in Angola prison, the state penitentiary of Louisiana, since April 1972 for the ...

And they were denied adequate education. Louisiana State is the country's largest adult maximum security prison. It is sometimes called Angola, the name of the old prison — a slave plantation ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola houses over six thousand men. 80 percent of them will die behind bars. An Angola hospice program trains volunteers from the prison population to care for ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered state officials to remove teens from a lockup at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, blasting them for violating the youths' constitutional rights through ...