Although many Angola inmates have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment, many are not violent criminals. Some of them were sentenced to life in prison for minor thefts, in one case for $14 ...

“Deliberately denying medical care to people in prison is torture,” highlighting a “troubling pattern of Angolan authorities withholding medical care as a means of punishing peaceful dissent.” Jackson ...

Vannoy began his corrections career at Angola in 1975 and served as warden ... Bull Riding and the world famous Guts-n-Glory, where inmates try to pluck a chip from between the eyes of a raging ...

A Louisiana inmate claims in court that he was subjected to more ... he was sent from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola to another prison where he was placed in solitary confinement. Kissinger, ...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from federal prisons for female inmates. The 47th ...

which includes Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the nation, where inmates pick vegetables by hand on an 18,000-acre lot. The site was once the Angola Plantations, a slave plantation ...