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 ...

“They don’t have to send me money because I work every day, and I rodeo. And I earn it in a good way,” he said. The Angola ...