Angola was once called America’s bloodiest prison. 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 ...

America's most famous prison rodeo returns in 2025 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola with a new warden ... The rodeo action starts at 2 p.m. on each day featuring what the warden ...

The court sentenced Day to three years of supervised release after his imprisonment. Deanthony Ford, 37, from Angola, received a 151-month federal prison sentence. He was convicted of conspiring ...

“Deliberately denying medical care to people in prison is torture,” highlighting a “troubling pattern of Angolan authorities withholding medical care as a means of punishing peaceful dissent.” Jackson ...