Louisiana State Penitentiary

Henry Montgomery, whose sentencing was the subject of a 2016 Supreme Court case that decided inmates sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes committed as juveniles could have their sentences overturned, has been granted parole, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Those on Death Row will be granted a minimum of four hours to congregate outside their cells each day, plus other opportunities to leave their cells. Previously, they were confined in isolation 23 hours a day.

A September 20 letter from the advocacy group Promise of Justice Initiative addressed to Gov. John Bel Edwards detailed poor conditions, neglect and violence that the Orleans Parish Prison evacuees said they experienced.

At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, people are serving life without parole sentences in greater numbers than in any other prison…

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…

At age 17, Henry Montgomery went to jail for killing a deputy in Baton Rouge. He's been in jail ever since, serving a life sentence in Angola penitentiary…

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…

When Earl K. Long Hospital closed nearly two years ago, LSU’s private partner in Baton Rouge — Our Lady of the Lake — took over patient care, but...