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Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, lawyers contend.

This week on American Routes Shortcuts, saxophonist and Neville Brother, Charles Neville, shares about his time at Angola Prison in the 60s. He was among…

On this week's edition of All Things New Orleans, we chat with Laine Kaplan-Levenson, host of WWNO's Tripod: New Orleans @ 300. The podcast will launch…

This week on American Routes Shortcuts, saxophonist Charles Neville shares about his time at Angola Prison in the '60s. He was among many great musicians…

Prisons are built on the supposition that time, discipline and routine transform inmates into new people. Nelson Davis has lived with this idea since…

In January, 1995 Burl Cain became warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. In his 20 years on the job, Cain became practically synonymous…

Glenn Ford, the Shreveport man exonerated last year after spending 30 years on death row, died yesterday. Ford was 33 years old when he was wrongfully...

A federal judge in New Orleans has ordered the release of an inmate held in solitary confinement for more than 40 years. He’s the last prisoner in a case…

The state corrections department says the only way it can lower heat levels on Louisiana's death row to a federal judge's requirements is by installing…