Louisiana State Penitentiary

Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will soon find out if he will be able to walk out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

A convicted killer with a history of violence remains at large more than two months after he and nine others escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center.

While incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Duncan would help hundreds of prisoners file appeals for their cases and motions for improved treatment.

The decision marks the second time within a year a federal judge has ordered corrections officials to boost heat precautions at 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…