Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this week's "Beg-Knows America," David Begnaud takes "CBS Mornings" inside Angola State Penitentiary, the largest maximum ...

As Angola’s prison rodeo debuts in the Superdome, Black riders in the city fight to preserve a tradition free from cages, cotton, and coerced labor.

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to participate in its prison rodeo, the last remaining in the country. Always ...

A new immigration detention facility designed to house hundreds of undocumented immigrants convicted of serious crimes opened in Louisiana this week as part of what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The ACLU of Louisiana is condemning the new immigration detention center inside the infamous Angola prison. Attorneys said there is a lack of transparency from government ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — For the first time ever, a dance involving inmates and their daughters took place inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary. 29 inmates participated in the dance ...