Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

A federal appellate court this week refused to throw out a ban on housing incarcerated youth at Angola ... hospitalized after he fell at Louisiana State Penitentiary, which his lawyer said ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

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Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state's ...

The men were trying to smuggle meth and tobacco into the federal prison using a cannon, the Grant Parish Sheriff's Office ...

At least three state corrections officers have been injured in an incident described as "chaos" at Collins Correctional Facility on Wednesday, according to state lawmakers who are monitoring the ...

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...