Federal judge Brian A. Jackson certified the prison labor case as a class action in late December. A lawsuit alleges the ...

A federal judge has ordered the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections to keep heat safety measures in place another 90 days for field workers at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola. U ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A New Orleans-based human rights group was able to get a Louisiana federal court to renew a preliminary injunction requiring the state’s corrections officials to issue a “heat alert ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Governor Jeff Landry, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi and ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan will announce the opening of a new ...

The Department of Homeland Security is expanding immigration enforcement nationwide, with its latest effort focused on a well-known prison in Louisiana. The Angola facility has a long history, and DHS ...