A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...

A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola must again take special precautions to protect inmates who work in the prison's fields during high ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm ...

A federal judge said a case challenging conditions on a Louisiana prison work assignment can move forward as a class action, opening the door for the lawsuit to impact thousands of incarcerated people ...