A corrections major at the Louisiana State Penitentiary was arrested and charged with introduction of contraband.

WEST FELICIANA PARISH, La. (WAFB) - An Angola prison corrections sergeant has been arrested after a search led to the discovery of three cell phones in her vehicle, which were deemed to be contraband, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Four former Angola Prison supervisory correctional officers were sentenced Thursday for assaulting a shackled and handcuffed inmate who was not resisting. The officers, 43 ...

A corrections officer at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was arrested on a count of introduction of contraband ...

Inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the U.S.— a facility about the size of Manhattan— had a special opportunity to create new, magical ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo returns this weekend, kicking off Sunday, October 5, and continuing every Sunday throughout October. It's known as the "Wildest Show in the South" and held at the Louisiana ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 spring Angola Prison Rodeo. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections announced that the event is set to take ...

This week is one of the months the Angola Prison Rodeo takes place back in the spring Light Switch host Greg LaRose talked to reporter Piper Hutchinson, after she attended the Angola Prison Rodeo. She ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...