Lawrence Hecker was handed the life sentence in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on Wednesday. The sentence was given ...

Former New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, 93, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday (Dec. 18) after pleading ...

Lawrence Hecker was sentenced Wednesday, just weeks after he entered his plea moments before jury selection was slated to begin in his trial.

NEW ORLEANS — Former Catholic Priest Lawrence Hecker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday morning. Hecker, 93, pleaded ...

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

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Tickets are now on sale for the upcoming 2024 spring Angola Prison rodeo. The rodeo is set to take ...

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 ...

the policy director of Voters Organized to Educate and a longtime advocate of criminal justice reform in Louisiana. A former Angola prisoner, Yancy knows firsthand the impact an adult prison ...

Whether volunteering in hospice, designing the prison magazine or leading the drama team, Gary Tyler lived an eventful life ...