“Today we're here at this legendary Angola prison to announce an agreement between the United States of America and the great state of Louisiana. There has never been an agreement like this one before ...

Federal judge Brian A. Jackson certified the prison labor case as a class action in late December. A lawsuit alleges the "farm line" violates the Eighth Amendment rights of people working there and ...

Federal officials say they want to send a message, and they chose one of the most notorious prisons in the United States to deliver it. On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...

Read full article: Light freeze expected for many neighborhoods Wednesday morning ANGOLA, La. – Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. Jeff Landry wants to house the "worst of the worst" criminal undocumented immigrants in the country in Louisiana. Landry has been developing plans to hold hundreds of federal ...

(Bloomberg) -- On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, tours "Camp 57," a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...