The man credited with turning around one of America’s most dangerous prisons had a nearly 90-minute session with South Dakota ...

An inmate, Anthony Craig, 48, died unexpectedly at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, and an autopsy has been ...

New allegations are detailed in a lawsuit claiming a Houston man was beaten to death by guards in a private Louisiana jail.

Dominque Jones-Johnson reveals how children of incarcerated parents in Louisiana suffer under a broken justice system—and why real reform can’t wait.

A federal judge had blocked ICE from deporting Chanthila Souvannarath, warning ‘inherent and obvious harm’ in deporting a ...

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to ...

On a night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1996, Marcus Cheffen robbed Don Allison at gunpoint, shooting him in the leg and ...

Captive State is a groundbreaking public history project. It’s the first public-facing project to present a three-century ...

Loyola University New Orleans gains U.S. approval to offer Pell Grants for incarcerated students in its Rayburn prison ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison. A ...

An investigation into Caddo Correctional Center reveals that out of several hundred inmate complaints filed in the first half ...