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

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary – also known as Angola Prison after the plantation it replaced ... This led to a drastic change in legislation around youth rehabilitation and a spike in life without ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...