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

The Louisiana State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is named "Angola" after the former slave ...

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

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Capitol Park Museum and Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser are unveiling a new exhibit, “Billy Cannon: They Called Him Legend.” It ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — A former doctor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing multiple patients, including children, over the span of years in the New York ...

According to Louisiana State Police Trooper Shelby Mayfield of the Public Affairs Section, the vehicle was driving in the same direction that the bicyclist was traveling on the roadway. For reasons ...

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 ...

(WANE) — An Angola man found guilty in a fatal shooting inside an apartment in October 2023 received a 65-year prison sentence ... which claimed the life of 56-year-old Bryan Hall.