“Today we're here at this legendary Angola prison to announce an agreement between the United States of America and the great state of Louisiana. There has never been an agreement like this one before ...
Federal officials say they want to send a message, and they chose one of the most notorious prisons in the United States to deliver it. On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - On Wednesday (Sept. 3), Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem toured a formerly unused section of Angola Prison ...
Each year, the Louisiana State Penitentiary holds its Angola Prison Rodeo, which has been hosted annually since 1965. The rodeo features inmates who have volunteered to compete in events, as well as a ...
The Angola Prison Rodeo, known as "The Wildest Show in the South," will return April 18-19, 2026. Events include inmate-made arts and crafts, live music and traditional rodeo competitions like bull ...
On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of America’s most ...
In his second term, President Donald Trump has searched far and wide for a fearsome prison to call his own. He sent immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay Navy base in early February and floated ...
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 ...
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