As young men, Quontos and Layla made a poor decision—reckless, immature, and wrong. But they were not hardened criminals.

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

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety says the body of an inmate was found inside his cell at Angola on Tuesday.

Human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that the United States may have committed a war crime with a ...

(Times-Signal Editor Craig Franklin shares about his history with the Angola Prison Rodeo, dating back over 40 years.) It was ...

Amnesty International says a U.S. airstrike in April that killed 60 detained African migrants should be investigated as a ...

NEW YORK -- Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July. He ...

Disgraced former Rep. George Santos, fresh off his release from prison after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence on Friday night, dismissed his critics, telling CNN he’s focused on the future ...

A protest by a Salvadoran immigrant incarcerated in California's Imperial Valley in the 1980s resonates decades later as detained migrants again participate in hunger strikes to bring awareness to the ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is putting criminal illegal migrants on notice with an ad promoting "Louisiana Lockup," a detention facility built inside the nation’s largest maximum-security prison. The ...

A federal court has imposed a litany of restrictions on Sean “Diddy” Combs to take effect after he finishes his four-year prison sentence for prostitution charges, requiring him to remain on ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Orleans Justice Center escapee, Derrick Groves, who was recently recaptured in Atlanta, was arraigned on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Officials with the office of Attorney General Liz ...